Tag: Agriculture

National More Young People Need to Take Advantage of Opportunities in the Agriculture and Agroprocessing Sectors (the dtic) There is a great need to get more young people partici...

National Agricultural rebound: South Africa’s citrus exports heading for a record year (Daily Maverick) South Africa’s citrus industry, which looks set to export a record 160...

National Government and Industry to Boost Growing Global Business Service Industry Through New Industry Master Plan (the dtic) Eighty-two thousand jobs have been created in South...

National SA on track to harvest record soya bean crop (Farmer’s Weekly) The current spike in soya bean production is good news for South Africa since it will mean that signific...

National SA making efforts to improve ease of doing business (SAnews) South African cities are making efforts to improve the ease of doing business, although the pace of reforms ...

National South Africa Parliament Calls for Comments on Fair Use (infojustice) South Africa Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has invited a further round of...

National South Africa’s trade surplus remains robust, underpinned by commodity prices (Daily Maverick) South Africa’s trade surplus remains among the few bright spots in an e...

National Animal products boost agriculture’s bottom line (IOL) The agricultural sector made significant monetary gains between 2017 and 2019, with income rising by R37.4 billio...

National Africa Intra-continental Trade: SA exporters must be supported now (The South African) KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) small businesses must be supported to take advantage of Th...

National SA’s Industrial Policy gets a shoeshine in financial inclusion (IOL) The government has proposed radical legislative amendments for South Africa’s industrial policy,...

National trade and trade-related news Business wants jobs and competitiveness prioritised amid 20% import-substitution request (Engineering News) Organised business is preparing ...

National trade and trade-related news Covid-19: Only 13% of small-scale farmers recovered (Food for Mzansi) A shocking new survey reveals that while 63% of commercial-scale farme...

National trade and trade-related news Tackling illicit financing flows is key to funding infrastructure (IOL) The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) announced last ...

National trade and trade-related news Sugar Masterplan starting to uplift industry – DTIC (Engineering News) The South African sugarcane industry has experienced a sharp declin...

National trade and trade-related news Post-pandemic recovery must be sustainable, inclusive (Engineering News) Efforts to accelerate the post-Covid-19 recovery in South Africa mu...

National trade and trade-related news South African trade rises on a tide of rallying commodity prices but government must boost economy to withstand a turnaround (Daily Maverick)...

National trade and trade-related news Poultry sector still on high alert for avian flu (IOL) The South African poultry and ostrich industries continued to remain under national h...

National trade and trade-related news Intellectual property rights can help combat illicit trade (News24) The protection of intellectual property rights can go a long way to help...

Most countries broadly aspire to free trade, and the benefits of international trade at times induce situations where governments support domestic industries with the objective of ...

National trade and trade-related news Food security fears allayed – Agbiz (IOL) Improved agricultural conditions would not fully compensate for job losses due to the pandemic, ...