CHICKENSSbu Mohale, Mbombela, Mpumalanga We have taken the last batch of chickens out and will start preparing for the next batch in a few weeks.These coming few weeks are very busy as the festive season is approaching. The wedding and party season is about to begin, so the demand for live chickens will start peaking […]
A mechanisation pilot project by the John Deere SMART initiative has doubled the maize yields of two small-scale farmers in one season, and has the potential to usher their whole community into the era of mechanised farming. By Robyn Joubert. Two of the biggest challenges choking the progress of small-scale farmers are access to finance […]
Self-made female farmers Welile Gumede, director of Azowel Projects, and Mbali Nwoko, CEO of Green Terrace, built their agribusinesses from scratch, with no farming knowledge and little funding. They shared their inspirational journeys in a webinar on 22 August, hosted by Livestock Wealth. African Farming’s Robyn Joubert attended. MEET THE GUEST SPEAKERS Welile Gumede is […]
All is set for one of Africa’s most exciting events – YouthConnekt Africa Summit – which is taking place in Kigali, Rwanda this week. In its 5th year, YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022, which is organised by the Ministry of Youth and Culture in Rwanda, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will take place from 13 – […]
Goat farmer Ha-Makhuvha, Thohoyandou, Limpopo We have indigenous veld goats (IVG) that we run on communal land. This can be a struggle for us as we don’t want our goat flocks mixing with other village goats. This is because we have been working hard to keep our IVG genetics pure. To do this, we manage […]
Sheep farmer Butterworth, Eastern Cape I farm Dohne Merinos on communal land and we are coming up for our October shearing season. We sell our wool through BKB, but I do my own shearing at home and package it before I send it to BKB in town. I have been dipping my sheep every month […]
Praveen Dwarika, Managing Director at Afgri’s Lemang Agricultural Services discusses transformation in the agricultural sector. He sits down with African Farming presenter Bathabile Modutoane to chat about some of the challenges to achieving economic freedom and what the end goal of transformation is. Source link
By Dominique Somda The Hollywood movie The Woman King, released in mid-September, became an immediate box-office success. The triumphs of the Agoodjies, the women warriors of the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in today’s Benin, west Africa, are as magnificent as the public had anticipated. In this epic historical drama, African women take centre stage. Abomey […]
We continue our series with FNB Agric and take a look at what happened at their event in the small town of Letsitele. The team sat down with farmers to talk about some of the challenges they are facing. Source link
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