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

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

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.

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

South Africa has an agricultural surplus each year, exporting about half of its yearly production. In 2023, South Africa’s agricultural exports amounted to a record $13.2 billion. This is nowhere ...

If this forecast holds, the typical autumn period in South Africa will be like late summer and early winter will be like autumn. June will be the new May which in turn will be the new April and so on.

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 ...

Food inflation has improved from 7.2% in January 2024 to 2.5% in December, compared with consumer price inflation that ...

A few South African women from different cultural backgrounds explained how they enjoyed pap. Local social media users also ...

Small towns embedded in agricultural areas have grown significantly over the last decades, driven particularly by the effects ...