Author Archives: SAPPO

Latest on ASF in Potchefstroom and the Western Cape

Source: SAPPO Weekly Update, 5 March 2021, photo credit: NEXT IAS Origin of ASF outbreak ...

SA agricultural employment down 8% year-on-year in Q4

Source: Wandile Sihlobo, Bizcommunity, 4 March 2021, photo credit: Alaister Russell/Times Live Although South Africa’s ...

Mixed South African economic signals as business confidence falters

Source: Ed Stoddard, Daily Maverick, 11 March 2021, photo credit: Bloomburg/Finacial Times The RMB/BER Business ...

China confirms ASF outbreaks in Sichuan and Hubei provinces

Source: The Pig Site, 8 March 2021, photo credit: Kyodo News China’s agriculture ministry confirmed ...

ASF Russia: Over half a million pigs culled this winter

Source: Vincent ter Beek, Vladislav Vorotnikov, Pig Progress, 3 March 2021, photo credit: jobs.ac.uk Career ...

Namibia: FMD cripples meat sales

Source: RPO e-newsletter, 5 March 2021, photo credit: Travel Safe Abroad The outbreak of foot-and-mouth ...

Gene-edited livestock ‘surrogate sires’ successfully made fertile

Source: RPO e-newsletter, 5 March 2021, photo credit: JazzIRT/Science Picture Co/Getty/Jackson Ryan/Cnet For the first ...

Hygiene practices can help limit spread of ASF

Source: Media release, Industroclean, 5 March 2021, photo credit: Lean Restaurant The recent outbreak of ...

POPIA: Information regulator issues guidelines for the development of codes of conduct

Source: Ahmore Burger-Smidt, director and head of Data Privacy Practice and member of Competition Law ...

The One Health approach – critical in preventing the next pandemic

Source: Zoetis media release, 2 March 2021, photo credit: Rural 21 If 2020 taught us ...

Agriculture on positive growth trajectory, key to economic recovery

Source: Unathi Mhlatyana, Bizcommunity, 25 February 2021, photo credit: leonori/Shutterstock/Treehugger In the South African National ...

More damage to South Africa’s labour market as unemployment hits new high

Source: Ray Mahlaka, Business Maverick, 23 February 2021, photo credit: Shutterstock/Rawpixel/Skills and Work – WordPress.com ...