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Fanie Ferreira, CEO of the Milk Producers’ Organisation (MPO), highlights the potential of the Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology at the University of Fort Hare to drive transformative research, address industry challenges, and support small-scale dairy farmers across South Africa.
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF SOUTH AFRICA

Milk Producers’ Organisation: Research will improve the industry 

Empowering small-scale dairy farmers across the rural-urban divide is the way forward

  • Elna Schütz
6 min read
South Africa has had cycles of foot-and-mouth disease in the cattle industry, multiple strains of avian influenza in poultry, and the African swine fever in the pig industry. (Photo by Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)
AFRICAN SWINE FLU

Rise in animal diseases a global problem 

South Africa must remain vigilant to prevent outbreaks which are costly to farmers and harm the export market

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
Consumers are angry that the government is treating them like a cash cow instead of fighting corruption and improving its fiscal discipline. File photo by Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF SOUTH AFRICA

Who protects us from rising prices?

In the wake of a food affordability crisis, prices at retail level are not controlled and the government is at arm’s length

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Smallholder farming the surest route to African growth
AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT

SA to prioritise EU agricultural trade over the US, Russia

Agriculture is an export-oriented sector, making it necessary to maintain trade relations with the country’s most important markets

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
Yola Minnaar spends most hours of her day thinking about whether people in her neighbourhood have had something to eat. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS CHAMBER OF SOUTH AFRICA

Rising food prices in South Africa: A struggle for daily survival

The shelves in grocery stores have become more forbidding since the pandemic, but economists believe that there is some hope on the horizon

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Agriculture eyes rival to Land Bank

The state-owned institution’s financial woes have led farmers and agribusiness to consider making an offer on the bank, starting a cooperative bank or partner with global…

  • Siqalane Taho
6 min read