South Africa supports berry farming for job creation
In December 2012 Frontier looked at how the Eastern Cape Province has targeted bamboo as an industry that can potentially create thousands of jobs in the province, which has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
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SA wine exports to reach record levels in 2013
Over the past couple of years the South African wine industry has been under pressure due to a strong rand and the ongoing effects of the recession, coupled with a slowdown in demand from supermarkets and a “trading down†as consumers were choosing cheaper wines.
Tanzania: Varsity to Offer Seed Breeding Lessons
Morogoro – Despite the fact that Tanzania hasn’t yet accepted the use of Genetic Modified seeds, the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) says that it has been offering such lessons for the past 12 years in order to equip the country with global modern technological change in plant breeding.
Tanzania: Morogoro Coffee Farmers to Increase Output
Morogoro – MOROGORO has a huge potential of producing more coffee than Kilimanjaro and Arusha regions combined, thus attracting authorities to revamp the crop. The efforts have started to bear fruits as during the 2011/12 season almost half of 146 villages in Morogoro District were actively involved in coffee production, where 3,000 hectares were cultivated and some 155 tonnes harvested.
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