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African Farming Episode 1 : Koos and Clifford Mthimkulu are building a family legacy (Full Episode) https://youtu.be/lt2tYlgnZmQ African Farming Episode 2 - Palesa Moahlodi never gave up! (Full Episode) https://youtu.be/Cm4WGmYcTns African Farming Episode 3: Cocky Mokoka is a shepherd of the soil (Full episode) https://youtu.be/cqzhVBWcXgo African Farming Episode 4: Duncan…
Elanco’s Dr. Thapelo Makae looks back at episode 13 of African Farming and explains the importance of animal nutrition and how Elanco can assist farmers in keeping animals healthy.
Few things are as satisfying to a farmer than when his son (or daughter!) returns to the family farm to take their legacy of hard work and sacrifice further. It was no different when Clifford Mthimkulu joined his dad, Koos, on the family’s mixed farming operation in Senekal in the…
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The first crop of female farmers has completed the first phase of Momentum Metropolitan Foundation’s Women in Farming programme in Pietermaritzburg. This programme seeks to upskill and integrate the young farmers into value chains, in the process stimulating rural food security and local economies. Robyn Joubert reports on an initiative that’s tapping into agriculture for the greater good.
It is estimated that around 20% of losses in livestock production worldwide can be attributed to animal diseases. In Southern Africa, tick-borne diseases remain some of the key illnesses responsible for preventable economic losses in livestock production. Global warming is also inevitably making it possible for implicated vectors to survive in geographies where they did not traditionally occur before, or at least not in numbers high enough to create a disease concern.
WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER BEEN GIVEN? I have received a lot of advice but in 2000, my geography teacher, Mr. Sithi, sat me down and told me that I must always believe in myself and my potential. WHO HAS MADE THE BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR SUCCESS? I…
