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South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R10.5-billion in April, the South African Revenue Services (Sars) reports. This surplus is attributed to exports of R169.5-billion and imports of R159.1-billion, inclusive of trade with Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia (BELN). The year-to-date (January 1 to April 30) preliminary trade balance surplus of R26.6-billion was an improvement from the R6.7-billion trade balance surplus for the comparable period in 2023.On a year-on-year basis, export flows for April of R169.5-billion were 4.2% higher compared with R162.7-billion recorded in April 2023, while import flows were 0.8% higher having increased from R157.8-billion in April 2023 to R159.1-billion in the current period.
Die kommissie vir internasionale handelsadministrasie (Itac) oorweeg dit om die rabat op ingevoerde hoender vir ʼn tweede kwartaal vol te hou. Die kortings is in Januarie in werking gestel om die bekostigbaarheid van hoender vir verbruikers en ondernemings in die bedryf te handhaaf. Dit moes ook moontlike prysstygings keer wat kon voortspruit uit aanbodtekorte wat veroorsaak is deur verlede jaar se voëlgriepuitbreking. Die uitbreking het beteken meer as agt miljoen hoenders moes van kant gemaak word.
Parading fake cows painted in the colours of the European flag, the protesters congregated outside the headquarters of the European Parliament and the European Commission on Monday, 27 May. In an interview with Euronews, Kjartan Poulsen, president of the European Milk Board, said the protesters wanted “an EU-wide version of a Spanish law on ‘unfair commercial practices’, which forbids selling ‘products below cost at all stages of the purchasing chain”. According to the president of the Po Valley Milk Producers’ Association, Roberto Cavaliere, in some countries, such as Italy, the gap between production costs and selling prices was even greater than the European average, Euronews reported. “On average, the costs of an Italian company are around 60c/ℓ to 65c/ℓ. Currently, Italian producers earn 50c/ℓ. We still have a gap of 15c. We ask for a fair price because the prices paid to producers over the last 25 years have never covered production costs,” Cavaliere said.
Die Sitruskwekersvereniging (SKV) het sy vooruitskatting vir lemoenuitvoere vandeesweek ná ʼn vergadering met die lemoenfokusgroep met 14,5% afwaarts aangepas. Aan die begin van die seisoen is verwag dat 25,6 miljoen 15 kg-kartonne nawellemoene uitgevoer sou word. Dit is nou tot ʼn verwagte 22 miljoen 15 kg-kartonne verminder. Justin Chadwick, uitvoerende hoof van die SKV, sê die nuwe vooruitskatting verteenwoordig ook ʼn afname van 11% vanaf verlede jaar, toe Suid-Afrika in die geheel 24,8 miljoen kartonne nawellemoene uitgevoer het. Die aanpassing word op verskeie faktore gegrond.
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Bennie van Zyl, hoofbestuurder va TLU SA, waarsku as ’n koalisieregering met die MK en EEF gevorm word, gaan die land ’n baie meer radikale beleidsomgewing binnegaan. “Die EFF staan die nasionalisering van grond en die Reserwebank voor. As die regering se beleidsomgewing dus weens koalisievomring meer radikaal gaan word, gaan daar katastrofiese gevolge vir die ekonomie wees.”Van Zyl is ook bekommerd oor hoe kaderontplooiing in die nuwe regering daar gaan uitsien. “Oor 30 jaar heen het die ANC sy beleid van kaderontplooiing op regeringsvlakke, staatsinstellings en vele meer plekke toegepas. Van hierdie kaders is steeds in hul poste en só bevind die land hom in skaakmat wat doeltreffende dienslewering betref.” Hy sê al besluit die nuwe regering om dienslewering te verbeter, is daar steeds hierdie kaders wat dit kan saboteer en nie tot uitvoering bring nie. “Dit kan baie lank duur om dít te herstel.”
Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens kan buie en donderbuie voorkom en selfs ’n bietjie sneeu in hoogliggende gebiede. Dit is as gevolg van ’n ontwikkelende afsnylaagdrukstelsel wat vanaf Sondag tot Maandag (2 tot 3 Junie) oor die westelike en suidelike dele van die land sal voorkom.
Ford’s Silverton manufacturing plant, in Pretoria, is one of five global manufacturing hubs for the Ranger bakkie. The plant is able to produce up to 200 000 vehicles a year and, based on three-shift 24-hour production, it is capable of producing up to 720 vehicles a day – or one vehicle every two minutes. There are around 3 000 to 4 000 spot welds in the body of every single Ranger, and corrosion protection is provided by dipping the body in 12 chemical baths prior to painting. Every Ranger is covered with about eight litres of Ford’s 3-Wet High Solids Paint system.
Rooivleis is een van die mees voedsame kossoorte wat daar is. Dit is propvol vitamiene, minerale, anti-oksidante en ander voedingstowwe wat ‘n oorweldigend positiewe uitwerking op menslike gesondheid het.
Forests harbour 80% of the world's terrestrial plant and animal species, help to mitigate climate change and provide shelter, livelihoods, water, food and fuel security for 2 billion people around the world. Despite their significance to life as we know it, forests are disappearing at a rapid rate. In the past 30 years, we have lost more than 1.3 million square kilometres of forests -
As Zimbabwe faces its worst drought in 40 years, Farai Shawn Matiashe speaks to farmers about the barriers to climate resilience. Margaret Mutasa, a smallholder farmer, stares at her children picking yellow-green guavas from the fields in Watsomba, a rural area in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province.
The Southern Hemisphere has taken over the kiwi supply as their harvesting has begun. For South Africans, it seems to be a difficult campaign. The campaign in New Zealand finally seems to be more positive after multiple years of challenges being thrown at the growers and exporters.
The South African farmers and workers in the maize-growing regions are busy with the harvest season. There was already good progress in the first four weeks of this new marketing year. For example, farmers delivered to commercial silos 3,2 million tonnes of maize in the first four weeks of May, the new marketing year – 2024/24.
It’s 2030, and the world is on the brink of collapse. Governments and corporations have spent decades running large climate conferences, signing complicated treaties to decarbonize the economy, believing it is the only way to solving the climate crisis. Yet, temperatures continue to rise, droughts and floods become so frequent that normal life is a thing of the past. Ecosystems collapse everywhere, food prices soar.
The loss of tropical forests is often in the news. We see pictures of barren land next to forest, of chainsaws, of bulldozers. Depressing images. These new items generate frustration and anger, among politicians, conservationists, scientists and many more.
New record for the Italian Agriculture 4.0 market which in 2023 reached two and a half billion in turnover, 19 percent more than the previous year. This is what emerges from research recently carried out by the Smart Agrifood Observatory of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan which highlights how although investments continue in the growth trend.
Summer Citrus from South Africa (SCSA) is kicking off its 2024 harvesting season after successfully concluding the 2023 season earning the group 25 years of experience shipping citrus to the USA. Shipments of citrus fruit from South Africa have more than doubled since 2019.
Hoewel die landbousektor ten spyte van probleme daarin kon slaag om sy handelsurplus te verhoog moet die samewerking voortduur om logistiek te verbeter, sê Wandile Sihlobo, hoofekonoom van Agbiz.
The latest average weaner calf price dropped further last week to R31.96 per kilogram, now about 7% higher than a year ago. Last year, prices traded at R29.82, which was the lowest point. We can expect higher prices from now as we move deeper into winter. Prices in the Eastern Free State rose to R32.66, while prices in the Eastern Cape and Central Free State dropped to R31.00.
South Africa-WHITE MAIZE (2024/25 New Season) Supply: The total supply of white maize is projected at 7 562 971 tons for the 2024/25 marketing season. This includes an opening stock level (at 1 May 2024) of 1 346 568 tons and local commercial deliveries of 6 153 350 tons. Whole white maize imports are estimated at 0 tons for the season, early deliveries of 52 053 tons and a surplus of 11 000 tons.
Kwa Zulu Natal en die Oos Kaap het baie vrugbare grond en meeste van die grond is in die hande van swart inwoners en baie in die hande van swart bemagtigings trusts- Die probleem is dat die grond nie gebruik word nie- baie min van die mense kan boer- kan kos voorsien vir Suid Afrika - en meeste van hulle is lui- wil werk he-en plase wat reeds ontwikkel is. Suid Afrika se huidige landbouers is suksesvol om kos op hierdie mense te tafels te sit wat nog steeds glo dat jy kos net op winkelrakke kry. Ons het te veel mense in die land wat afhanklik is van die staat.
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Suid-Afrika is ʼn kultureel heterogene land met ʼn stelsel wat gemaak is vir ʼn homogene land. Dan kry ʼn mens, soos wat prof. Herman Giliomee dit beskryf, ʼn demografiese demokrasie of ʼn sensus verkiesing – die groep wat die grootste is, kry al die mag. Ons sien dit nou weer uitspeel.” Dit is dan ook waarom dit so lonend vir ʼn party soos die ANC is om ʼn swart identiteit te bevorder, en waarom hulle so krities reageer teen ander partye wat kultuur of etnisiteit beklemtoon. So stem besonder min mense regtig op grond van partybeleid en -prestasie, met veel meer mense wat deur party-identiteit en -persoonlikheid aangetrek word. Dit is hoe ons die situasie kry waar massas ontnugterde kiesers doodeenvoudig wegbly, eerder as om vir ʼn ander party te stem. Dit is waarskynlik dieselfde rede waarom daardie wegbly-kiesers op die ou end in hul massas vir die MK-party gestem het – hulle voel tuis by dié party van ANC-gegriefdes en ‑ontnugterdes. Partybeleid en ʼn goeie regeerrekord maak blykbaar nie soveel saak vir kiesers soos wat mens sou dink nie.
ANN- Die meeste van die nuwe party lede van MK kry nou 'n maandelikse Inkomste uit die staatskas- voordele wat hulle nog nooit gehad het nie en hulle oe is op die staatskas- Die mense wat vir hulle gestem het gaan nie die voordele sien nie en gaan nog steeds in armoede bly. Alles lee beloftes wat al vir 30 jaar plus kom. Dieselfde gebeur by die EFF- dis net sekere mense wat daaruit voordeel trek- Ons sien dit in honderde ANC lede wat in die parlement sit - ander op slimfone en ander wat sit en slaap na 'n aand van lekker kuier op staatskoste. Hou in gedagte- Dat daar baie min werklike sogenaamde nuwe politieke leiers is met integriteit wat vorentoe kyk en in belang van hulle kiesers optree. Meeste van hulle sien net wat nou op die tafel le. 70 huidige verkose lede van die ANC is nou sonder werk- en gaan beslis op ander plekke hulle heil soek. Dis opmerklik hoe "arrogant" sekere van die sogenaamde nuwe leiers in 'n paar dae geword het- nadat 'n paar duisend mense vir hulle gestem het- en hulle baie vinnig "untouchable' geword het. Ons sal moet saamstaan om hierdie aanslag af te weer.
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