Crop Resilience and Biostimulants in African Agriculture
Providing food for a growing population while making the most of limited arable land is one of the biggest challenges facing agriculture. However, increasingly unpredictable...
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Herbicide Resistance: Weed Management Tips
Herbicide-resistant weeds are becoming an increasingly serious challenge for farmers worldwide, threatening crop productivity, increasing production costs and complicating weed control. For South African producers,...
Syngenta Unveils EXORT MicroRNA Technology to Improve Crop Yields
Syngenta has announced EXORT™ technology, a new biological platform designed to help crops improve productivity by using their own natural biological mechanisms. The technology uses...
Corteva Advances Precision Breeding for African Agriculture
Corteva Advances Sustainable Agriculture Through Precision Breeding and AI Agricultural innovation is becoming increasingly important as farmers face rising input costs, changing climate conditions, persistent...
Spunchem: Protecting Crops from Frost and Weeds
South African farmers face a range of challenges throughout the growing season, but frost damage and weed pressure remain two of the most persistent threats...
Farmers need more than finance to succeed
Access to finance is an important part of building a successful agricultural business, but funding alone does not guarantee that a farmer will succeed. What...
AgDevCo Secures $49M for East Africa Agribusiness
Agricultural development financier AgDevCo has secured a first close of approximately $49 million for AgDevCo Ventures, a new early-stage investment vehicle aimed at addressing one...
Automated Onion Grading Offers Lessons for Africa
Agrograde’s system can process up to 10 metric tons of onions per hour and reduce grading labor requirements by nearly 80 percent. A new automated...
Field crops face leaner years as margins tighten
The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy’s (BFAP) Baseline 2026 Agricultural Outlook (the baseline), launched earlier this month, notes that the sector entered this period...
The Growing Power of Biological Inputs in SA
As South African farmers increasingly turn to regenerative practices to restore soil health and improve input efficiency, natural biological solutions are moving from alternative remedies...