Agriculture is no longer a popular career choice, and a ministerial committee should be appointed to discuss urgent problems. This was one of the recommendations from a panel of the Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) in the report “Revitalising Agricultural Education and Training in South Africa.” Several panel…
A new training academy which recently opened in Zimbabwe will provide the opportunity for local farmers to embrace mechanization in on-field experiences. The Case IH Training Academy is on the BlueSky Farms and will be run in partnership with Case IH, its Zimbabwean distributor Agricon and BlueSky Farms. The Academy,…
One experienced pig farmer unlocks the potential of aspirant pig farmers, and farm workers, by using the pig farms of his clients as his classroom. He takes his teaching to where it makes a real difference to people and pigs. Elder Phiri (50) of Chilanga, Lusaka, spent 30 years working…
Alexious Shoko was a trained agricultural advice official in Zimbabwe before coming to South Africa to seek a better opportunity – and that he did on a fruit farm in the Western Cape. In January 2016, he was crowned the Western Cape’s Agricultural Worker of the Year. Alexious describes the…
Prospective agricultural students can now study online to obtain their agricultural degrees. A lack of teaching at local agricultural colleges, problems at South African universities, and a lack of development in online education, created a gap for the establishment of Agricolleges International, a computer cloud-based institution which will provide online…
Chicken farmers in the egg business said inadequate training was industry’s primary challenge. Farmers in the Lusaka area discussed the major stumbling blocks to profitable layer operations at a recent meeting, near Lusaka organised by the Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ). “Farmers resolved that there is a need to undertake…
