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/ 17 October 2008
Escalating input costs and the current low return on milk have placed dairy farmers in KwaZulu-Natal in a financial crisis.
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/ 18 September 2008
State accused of stealing land and livelihoods for a factory that now lies empty.
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/ 7 September 2008
Members of the Landless People’s Movement in KwaZulu-Natal and a group of farmers have decided to stop quarrelling with each other.
A tribunal began hearing an appeal on Wednesday by 77 white Zimbabweans against orders to expropriate their farms.
”No farmers, no future.” So says the bumper sticker on farmer Bully Botma’s white bakkie, parked in Bothaville, South Africa’s mealie capital.
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
Poor African farmers can boost export revenues from agriculture by billions of dollars if they use intellectual property as part of their business plans, a report released at the World Economic Forum said on Thursday.
Several farmers have withdrawn from an empowerment programme, leaving it on the brink of disaster
Seventeen chemical companies are trying to suppress allegations that their herbicides are causing massive damage to South Africa’s ecology.