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SA’s agricultural fortunes contracted in second quarter but a recovery is predicted
The mid-summer drought and animal diseases resulted in reduced crop yields and hurt the poultry, piggery and cattle sectors
Faecal pollution severely contaminates SA’s rivers, dams – report
More than half of the sites showed a high health risk if water was used for irrigation
Insect army winning war against invasive superweed in South Africa’s waterways
Tiny bugs – water hyacinth planthoppers – have reduced the coverage of an invasive superweed to below 5%
US fashion contaminates Africa’s water
Untreated effluent from textile factories in in Lesotho, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Madagascar pours into rivers, contaminating the water