The affected crops encompass approximately 155 882 tons of white maize and 46 969 tons of yellow maize for the 2024/25 season ...

South African farmers are planting more maize this year, covering 2.65 million hectares, according to the CEC. White maize ...

The agricultural department has issued an alert after a bacterial disease on maize has been detected in four provinces in ...

Goss’s Wilt is a bacterial disease, and there are no recorded fungicides that work against it. It can be managed by planting ...

Climate change is making it harder for African farmers to grow the continent’s staple crop, maize. But food activists in ...

Government on Friday lifted an eight-day import ban on key grains such as maize and wheat, after investigations noted that the plant disease that provoked the decision is largely transmitted through ...

As South Africa prepares to take the G20 helm in 2025, the nation stands poised to revolutionise global agricultural policy.

Firstly, South Africa's maize harvest fell by 23% to 12.7 million tonnes. About 6.0 million tonnes are white maize, and 6.7 million tonnes are yellow maize. The overall maize harvest of 12.7 million ...

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — Generally available staple foods such as wheat and maize flour provide energy, but they alone often don’t fulfil the need for all nutrients necessary and sufficient nutrition.

Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

South Africa’s agricultural sector faces trouble as one of its biggest export region lines up a new strategy and new rules.

Due to outbreaks of Goss’s bacterial wilt (Clovibacter michiganensis subsp. Nebraskensis) and bud rot of palms (Phytophthora ...