WEEKEND-VIEWPOINT- Will South Africa disease FMB strategy keep up with the demand.
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While maintaining international standards, strict state oversight, and regulatory integrity in South Africa's foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) response is essential and uncontested—ensuring strain matching, vaccine quality, and the state as the competent authority—farmers are raising a deeper structural concern: whether the current centralized control system can deliver the biological intensity and sustained rhythm the disease demands.
VIEWPOINT-The Hidden Truth About Preservatives and “Fresh” Food in Our Shops
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Most of the food we buy in supermarkets is loaded with preservatives, artificial colours, flavour enhancers, and other additives.
VIEWPOINT- We need real Mentors in Farming and Agriculture in South Africa
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South African farmers, particularly in the commercial sector, are indeed among the most professional and productive in the world, consistently demonstrating high standards of efficiency, innovation, and output that benefit not only the domestic market but also the broader African continent and global trade.
Over the past few months, almost every major farming publication and broadcaster in South Africa has interviewed Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen about the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has voiced deep concern over the mounting crisis in South Africa’s sugar industry, warning that the ongoing liquidation of Tongaat Hulett is creating severe uncertainty for the operation of critical sugar mills just weeks before the start of the April crushing season.
VIEWPOINT-South Africa’s Wheat Production: Why Local Farmers Struggle While the World Grows More
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South Africa is producing significantly less wheat today than it did two or three decades ago, even as global wheat production continues to climb to record levels year after year.
- WEEKEND-VIEWPOINT- Which Agribusinesses Truly Stand with Us During the FMD Crisis
- VIEWPOINT- South African Farmers Are Doers and supportive and hard working.
- VIEWPOINT-Bureaucratic Delays and Centralization- Foot and Mouth
- WEEKEND-VIEWPOINT- South Africa's Inflation Frustrations: Facts as of February 2026
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- Zambia has partly lifted its ban on livestock imports from South Africa as the foot-and-mouth disease situation improves.The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries said late Wednesday that imports of certain cloven-hoofed animals and animal products will now be allowed on a case-by-case basis.
- Young farmers in the Western Cape are facing pressure from poor climate conditions, slow research response, rising input costs, and the challenge of keeping up with technology. Speaking at a conservation agriculture panel discussion in the province, two farmers said planning would be much easier if they could know in advance what the weather and producer prices will be in the future.
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