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South Africa needs to bolster its biosecurity to control the spread of disease in livestock and poultry.
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER

Biosecurity is vital for SA’s successful agricultural growth and export strategy

Frequent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza and African swine fever suggest weakness in biosecurity controls and the effect of climate change

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
Land is about much more that Photo: Michele Spatari/Bloomberg/Getty Images
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER

South Africa’s agriculture to recover in 2025

Better dam levels and a stable electricity supply for irrigation will continue to benefit the horticulture sub-sector and floriculture

  • Wandile Sihlobo
6 min read
Canned pilchards are sold in smaller quantities (typically 400g cans and smaller) which gives consumers some flexibility regarding their purchasing patterns.
ASTRAL

Tinned fish overtakes chicken as South Africa’s preferred protein

The most affordable protein is dry beans, which cost R0.32 per protein gram, followed by eggs at R0.48 per protein gram

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
Annual consumer inflation was unchanged at 3.2% in February at 3.2%, with increases registered in housing and utilities, food and alcoholic beverages and restaurants and accommodation offset by decreases in the services sector, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AGRICULTURE

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  • Wandile Sihlobo
1 min read
The supply of egg and poultry meat is steadily increasing following shortages triggered by a bird flu outbreak that began in April
ASSOCIATION OF MEAT IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS

Government urged to confront looming egg shortages amid bird flu crisis

Importers have called for a flexible poultry policy that allows for the suspension of punitive import tariffs implemented to protect local production

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read
ANTON BREDELL

Downward trend in deaths due to bird flu in the Western Cape

More than 18 000 birds have died to date, the majority of them being the wild Cape cormorant seabirds on Dyer Island

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
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ANTON BREDELL

Bird flu outbreak on Dyer Island causing mass deaths

The island hosts the vulnerable African penguins, endangered bank cormorant and roseate tern

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
AIRBORNE

Bird flu outbreak puts poultry industry in jeopardy

Avian flu has been confirmed on two farms in Gauteng and one in North West

  • Chris Gilili
4 min read