Some 135 hectares is available to lease as part of the agricultural department’s efforts to free up more land.

SA’s agriculture department has established a FMD task team to prioritise the outbreak, and a veterinary operational committee is also dealing with it

The department of agriculture has received a plethora of online applications after it released about 500 000 hectares of land last month

The agricultural sector has grown this year, but an absence of collateral is preventing black farmers from making a go of their business