Frequent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza and African swine fever suggest weakness in biosecurity controls and the effect of climate change
Better dam levels and a stable electricity supply for irrigation will continue to benefit the horticulture sub-sector and floriculture
The most affordable protein is dry beans, which cost R0.32 per protein gram, followed by eggs at R0.48 per protein gram
We can now evaluate the harvest of 2023
Importers have called for a flexible poultry policy that allows for the suspension of punitive import tariffs implemented to protect local production
More than 18 000 birds have died to date, the majority of them being the wild Cape cormorant seabirds on Dyer Island
The island hosts the vulnerable African penguins, endangered bank cormorant and roseate tern
Avian flu has been confirmed on two farms in Gauteng and one in North West