SA President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday met farming representatives about the flagging agricultural sector’s problems – disease, attacks, job cuts and tension between white landowners and their black workers. Peter Rammutla, president of the largest union representing black farmers in South Africa, said Mbeki gave the union four months to come up with solutions to its economic and social problems. “He basically wants agriculture to make a come-back,” Rammutla said. In recent years, the country’s farm sector has been hard hit by livestock diseases, rationalisation, deadly assaults on farmers and simmering tensions between mainly white farmers and black labourers. – AFP