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About 5 000 farmers supply fresh produce to the Joburg market. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Call for reform and pricing transparency in South Africa’s fresh produce markets

The Competition Commission has said that practises by fertiliser, agrochemical and seed companies may also distort competition

Lulama Kapa and his wife Nothandekile on their farm near Ugie in the Eastern Cape. (Photo: James Puttick/New Frame)

ANC family tries to run black farmers off their land

The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for…

4IR and mechanisation threaten the livelihoods of unskilled South African farmworkers. (Photo: Reuters/Charles Mostoller)

Farmworkers and 4IR

Permanent jobs are shrinking in the farming sector

The winners of the annual Young Farmers and Young Female Entrepreneurs Awards with their various awards. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

Celebrating women and youth in agriculture

Women farmers produce 80% of Africa’s food, but only own 1% of the land

Lerato Senakhomo has been very successful with her maize crops and is the overall winner of the Young Farmers Award. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2018 Young Farmer Award winner – Senakhomo Farming

Senakhomo is recognised for her outstanding maize yields

Selina Hlabedi has vast experience in farming and is passing on this knowledge to the youth. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

Retrospective view

‘We empower other farmers, especially the youth and women’

Some of the hard working women who won prizes at the Young Farmers award ceremony. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2017 Young Farmer Awards winner – Vilakazi Farming Business Enterprise

‘Farming is life, and some of us black women are making it in what used to be a man’s world’

New age ‘agri-preneur’ Anna Phosa is the only black female commercial pig farmer in South Africa

Anna Phosa is living her dream of becoming a successful pig farmer

Phosa is supplying hundreds of pigs to Pick n Pay every week

Portia Mngomezulu won the Female Entrepreneur Award for her skincare products made from marulas. (Photo: Wikus de Wet/AFP)

2018 Female Entrepreneur Award – Sibhale Skin Solutions

‘I was the only one in the business when I started’

Provincial premier Phumulo Masualle

Eastern Cape gravitates towards breaking chains of poverty

Millions have been allocated to develop smallholder black farmers

“But it is one thing to talk about the agricultural sector helping the economy

​Lindiwe Zulu: “Thorny issue” of land needs to be addressed collectively

Black South Africans, who had not had the opportunities that generations of white farmers had, now had to play catch up.

Land Bank gets serious about loans

A new scheme byt the land bank offers funds at as low as prime minus 5% for co-operative businesses.