Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

China’s US pork imports plunge in 2018 as trade war bites

Reporting by Dominique Patton, additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom, Reuters China’s imports of pork from ...

01
Feb
Price of petrol, diesel rises in February

The Department of Energy has announced the petrol and diesel price changes for February 2019, ...

01
Feb
Drought survey: Severe crisis conditions in rural areas

Food security is a hard-won privilege and can easily be lost due to the persistent ...

27
Jan
FMD: SAPPO compartments to play major role

Task teams to soften blow of FMD outbreak A steering committee and three task teams ...

26
Jan
2019 Ensminger Symposium attracts international speakers

The Ensminger Pig Symposiums follow a rich tradition of over 50 years of sharing up ...

24
Jan
SAPPO Board 2018/2019

SAPPO’s Board 2018/2019 Charl Braak, Myles van Deventer, Stephen Butt (vice-chairman), Stefan Guizot, Johan van ...

21
Jan
FMD: Technical team met, info day on 23 January

The Technical Task team appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Foresty an Fisheries, Senzeni Zokwana ...

18
Jan
Lessons from Namibia on curbing the spread of foot and mouth disease

South Africa is in the middle of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Although it’s not ...

16
Jan
Labour committee begins process to correct error in national minimum wage law

Photo credit: The Economic Times Parliament’s labour committee on 16 January resolved to introduce an ...

16
Jan
New at SAPPO

Christian Zimelka: Consultant Christian Zimelka’s primary function at SAPPO is to strategically steer the SAPPO ...

16
Jan
New at SAPPO

Nico van Aardt: Consultant  (left) Nico van Aardt manages SAPPO’s Monyetla Enterprise Development Fund. He ...

16
Jan
Agriculture and agribusiness prospects for 2019

Political economy “The damage done to the economy and the social fabric of society by ...

12
Dec