TLU SA warns all farmers in the country to be alert and to take the necessary precautions against people who want to enter their farms to create unrest.

 Our first note for the year was sent out on 13 January 2020 and highlighted two threats that were imminent at the time in the sector, namely, drought and biosecurity (specifically foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever).

The government is drafting a localisation strategy as part of measures underpinning its economic reconstruction and recovery plan.

It may be a bit of a cliché, but if there is a silver lining to be found in the post-COVID economic situation it is the following; policymakers and the industry must put aside ideological differences and adopt a more practical approach to land reform, agricultural development and other economic policies.

The government is drafting a localisation strategy as part of measures underpinning  its economic reconstruction and recovery plan.

The recommendation by the labour department advisers to hike farm and domestic workers’ minimum wage by double digits will lead to a jobs bloodbath and entrenched poverty, economists said on Tuesday.