by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 29, 2018 | General Comments
I spent the last Saturday of the month in Rayton – a small town located in north-eastern Gauteng. I attended a farmers’ day where I was asked to present on the upcoming 2018-2019 summer crop production season in the context of rising farm input costs, changing climate...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 28, 2018 | General Comments
I continue to be surprised by an absence of horsemeat imports into South Africa so far this year. This is evident from the data from January 2018 to July 2018. When I wrote about this subject a few months back, I noticed that in the second half of the year – July and...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 26, 2018 | General Comments
Nothing can stand in the way of good news, especially if the good news is “food”. I am currently in Somerset West, Western Cape attending an annual conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa and had planned to write a brief piece about a few...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 25, 2018 | General Comments
While agriculture continues to be amongst the sectors being discussed as having a potential to ignite growth and create jobs in South Africa, the government spending to the sector as a share of overall government expenditure is nowhere close to the olden days. In the...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Sep 24, 2018 | General Comments
Some African countries are still sceptical about planting Genetically Modified (GM) crops. However, farmers in the southern tip of the continent, South Africa, have long been planting GM crops for over a decade and there seem to be greater benefits in terms of yields...
