Tag: Agriculture
Further agriculture profit margin compression as debt cost rises by 75bps
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Agri-Business:
Facing unprecedented levels of global uncertainty with a muted growth outlook, amid elevated inflation, and...
MTBPS: Minister delivers a tough statement dampened by lack of interventions for agriculture
While Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement included some positive pronouncements, Agri SA is disappointed that the statement failed to provide for...
MTBPS: Agricultural sector needs tax relief and infrastructure investment
Agri SA is hopeful that the Midterm Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) will outline critical measures to support the agricultural sector amid a number of...
R1,9 million disbursed to combat agricultural crime
ON 5 September 2022, the board of trustees of the Agri Securitas Trust Fund met to consider requests for financial support for rural safety...
Expropriation Bill passes without addressing serious flaws
Statement by Christo Van der Rheede, Executive Director at Agri SA
THE National Assembly (NA) have debated and passed the Expropriation Bill as referred to...
Better coordination and collaboration can speed up the process of resolving the ban on...
Better coordination and collaboration can speed up the process of resolving Botswana and Namibia's ban on South African vegetable exports. For this reason, the...
Con Court to consider government appeal of vital Supreme Court water rights judgment
Agri SA will be in the Constitutional Court Thursday, 25 August 2022, as the Court hears an application for leave to appeal on a...
Cape Town Container Terminal records highest weekly volume
The Cape Town Container Terminal recorded its highest weekly volume of 19 500 twenty foot equivalent units (TEU) last week, after handling a total...
Recent Q1 2022 GDP and Job Numbers confirm that WCDoA is pushing forward
Compared to Q1 2021, recent Q1 2022 gross domestic product (GDP) and employment numbers confirm that Western Cape agriculture is pushing forward.
StatsSA GDP numbers...
Agri on the rise?
Comment from Mr Jacques Moolman, President of the Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
THE Chamber of Commerce welcomes news of an agricultural revival in...
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