The Competition Commission has said that practises by fertiliser, agrochemical and seed companies may also distort competition
The government and stakeholders will have to work harder to ensure the industry adapts and thrives
Buying local sugar allows black farmers to sustain their own families and others
The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for 31 years
Permanent jobs are shrinking in the farming sector
Women farmers produce 80% of Africa’s food, but only own 1% of the land
‘We empower other farmers, especially the youth and women’
Senakhomo is recognised for her outstanding maize yields
Phosa is supplying hundreds of pigs to Pick n Pay every week
‘Farming is life, and some of us black women are making it in what used to be a man’s world’
‘I was the only one in the business when I started’
Millions have been allocated to develop smallholder black farmers
Black South Africans, who had not had the opportunities that generations of white farmers had, now had to play catch up.
A new scheme byt the land bank offers funds at as low as prime minus 5% for co-operative businesses.