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Inside the mealie economy
”No farmers, no future.” So says the bumper sticker on farmer Bully Botma’s white bakkie, parked in Bothaville, South Africa’s mealie capital.
SA on track to set up biofuels industry
South Africa is on the right track in its efforts to set up a profitable biofuels industry, said Ernst Janosky, head of agriculture at First National Bank, on Tuesday. Speaking…
SA company at forefront of bio-fuel development
A South African company on Tuesday unveiled plans for the continent’s first billion-dollar factory to make bio-ethanol from maize, as Africa races to find alternative energy…
‘Thief in the night’ wrecks wheat crop
Temperatures ranging from as little 2C to as high as 38,5C within only three weeks had damaged one of the most promising South African wheat crops in years.
SA farmer to return to Zimbabwe to face charges
Crawford von Abo, the Free State farmer who was arrested in Zimbabwe recently for being on his farm there, is determined to return to that country next month to face criminal…