Southern Africa Poultry Industry Urged to Build Missing Middle
Southern Africa’s poultry industry is being urged to move beyond a model that largely separates small survivalist producers from large integrated companies and deliberately develop a stronger middle tier of businesses. Ishmael Sunga, CEO of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, argues that the sector needs a new generation of professionalised, medium-scale enterprises capable of supplying formal markets, creating…
Eastern Cape Irrigation Schemes Revival Programme Moves Forward Through Investment Planning
The Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture, through the Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA), has reconvened with the World Bank and other key stakeholders to further align provincial irrigation schemes with the proposed investment approach for the Provincial Irrigation Schemes Revival Programme. The engagement forms part of ongoing efforts to develop a clear investment framework for irrigation schemes across the…
South Africa Shares Digital Agriculture Experience With Zambia in South South Cooperation Exchange
The National Department of Agriculture has shared South Africa's experience in developing and scaling government-led digital agriculture solutions with a delegation from Zambia as part of an ongoing South-South Cooperation Exchange Visit on Digital Agriculture and Artificial Intelligence. The engagement took place at the department's offices in Pretoria and focused on how digital technologies can strengthen agricultural information systems and…
