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 ...

Central to this achievement is Tanzania’s investment in agricultural inputs, particularly subsidised fertilisers ...

The latest Braai Index shows that it’s costing a bit more to have your friends and family over for a braai—but there is some ...

Editorial - The high food prices across Africa are the outcomes of broken food markets which fail to address the impacts of climate change and deliver increasingly unhealthy result for households and ...

The country produced 11.7 million tonnes of maize in the 2023/24 season, which is nearly double what it produced two years ...

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 ...

Global food commodity prices fell in January, led by sharp declines in sugar and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture ...

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 ...