The global streamlining of chemicals allowed on food products will render many crop-protection chemicals illegal by 1 June 2024, heightening risk for farmers already battling pests.
South Africa's rapid growth in macadamia nut cultivation has been good for farmers, but not for beekeepers, who are losing bee colonies to intense insecticide use.
Private sector programme is sowing the seeds of empowerment for agricultural graduates
by Lucas Ledwaba for Mukurukuru Media, Daily Maverick
June 22, 2021
Private sector programme is sowing the seeds of empowerment for agricultural graduates
by Lucas Ledwaba for Mukurukuru Media, Daily Maverick June 22, 2021 First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Agricultural Studies graduate Primness Mashego, now a junior manager at a Mpumalanga commercial farm, reckons it would have taken her much longer to reach her current position had she gone the traditional job-seeking way after her studies.