Category: CROPS

His comments followed the release of South Africa’s latest employment figures by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). Wege said that, amongst other reasons, the “perilous position” of the agricultural value chain was largely responsible for the loss of jobs in the sector. According to the Stats SA report, there were 12 000 fewer jobs in agriculture in…

Vintor and Sons Global Enterprises has flag-off this year’s disbursement of farm inputs to 3000 farmers in Nasarawa, Taraba, Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Niger and FCT through its Farmers Friends Project. The project director, Mr Vincent T. Iyev made this known during the flag-off of inputs disbursement at the project’s headquarters in Lafia, Nasarawa State. Mr…

For over 65 years, Robert Maquinaria Agricola has been a company dedicated to agricultural machinery. It is a dealer for many well-known brands and a seller of used machines. The company has a self-service store, a mechanical workshop, a spare parts service and a showroom. After the Agric-Bison brand disappeared in 2017, Robert Maquinaria took…

A group of Herefordshire farmers can rest easy in the knowledge that their trailer braking systems are up to scratch ahead of another busy year of field and road haulage. Three farm businesses near Ross-on-Wye sent a steady stream of bulk and flat-bed trailers to BH Savidge & Son’s Rock Farm at Lea to undergo…

Bucket elevators are essential components in most grain handling facilities. They are also recognized as both a circulation point for combustible dust and a potential ignition source. A dust explosion starting in a bucket elevator can potentially travel to larger downstream volumes such as silos and upstream material handling systems, leading to devastating secondary explosions elsewhere in…

nitially available for only a few machine categories, the JOSKIN configurator is now evolving to cover the entire range of products!  One year ago, JOSKIN announced the official launch of an online configurator for its range of products (https://my.joskin.com/sites/configurator). With this tool, the aim of the Belgian company was clear: to use digital solutions to…

Farmers have been urged to adopt new agricultural technologies to tame rising food shortage. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the AgroFoodpack Expo, the Kenya National Chambers of Commerce and Industry(KNCCI) Nairobi chapter termed technology and mechanization as the future of agriculture. The three-day expo intends to provide farmers, manufacturers and peers with new ideas…

US farmer group, the Family Farm Action Alliance, has alleged in a letter sent to the US Department of Justice that fertiliser companies in that country are increasing the prices of fertiliser products in response to high commodity prices. Fertiliser prices are “not based on basic supply and demand, but rather on the price the…

Global Acquisition by Netafim to Support Food Security and Strengthen Local Greenhouse Industry’s Access to Technology Netafim, the global leader of precision irrigation solutions and agricultural projects, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dutch turnkey greenhouse projects provider, Gakon. Netafim has been active in the greenhouse market for several decades and…

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food, are smallholder farmers who have traditionally relied on rain-fed agriculture for their production. Now, with erratic rainfall patterns and extreme climate conditions, farmers have recorded crop failures and dismal yields that continue…