Agri Eastern News Today

South Africa is bracing for a repeat of last season’s locust swarms, the worst in decades, and is banking on a tracking technology backed by the institute of Microsoft Corp’s late co-founder, Paul Allen, to tackle the infestation.

Offered as a free service, the tracking system was developed in 2015 and was first used to measure the size of Africa’s savanna elephant population by assessing data from aerial surveys.

AgriSA Executive Director, Christo van der Rheede, says the agricultural sector plays an important role in the recovery of the environment. He says that commercial farmers are increasingly using regenerative practices on farms to work in harmony with nature. Some experts say the threat of greenhouse gasses can be addressed by planting trees and certain […]

Eastern Cape police have been given 72 hours to find three unidentified men who are alleged to have killed Eastern Cape farmer John Viedge.