Pula September 2022 Sesotho Web
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2022
A word from… Jacques Roux (mentor)
A word from… Jacques Roux (mentor) August 2022 The 2021/2022 planting season will be remembered as one of the most difficult planting seasons yet. With good rain being forecast, it initially looked as if this would be another record season. Everything was ready for planting to begin, but then the big rain came that
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Consider planting if it makes business sense
Consider planting if it makes business sense August 2022 CHRISTIAAN VERCUIEL, INTERN: APPLIED ECONOMICS, GRAIN SA AND PIETMAN BOTHA, INDEPENDENT AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT Farming can no longer be seen as just the physical work being done to produce the crop. In modern times farming must be seen as a business and therefore run like a
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Contours can prevent soil loss
Contours can prevent soil loss August 2022 RICHARD MCPHERSON, AGRIBUSINESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Soil conservation work means any work which is constructed for the prevention of soil erosion, as well as the improvement of the vegetation or surface of the soil. It also includes work to improve the drainage of superfluous surface or
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We were there for the NAMPO 2022 experience
We were there for the NAMPO 2022 experience August 2022 JENNY MATHEWS, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST AND EDUCATOR After two years of enforced silence and no physical NAMPO harvest day, visitors were eager to visit Nampo park this year. Once the Grain SA team was given the green light, they were spreading the invitation
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Tool safety is important
Tool safety is important August 2022 Part 2 Tools make a big contribution to any workplace or farm. THE EMPLOYER’S RESPONSIBILITIES Do not use homemade tools in the workplace. Restrict or ban the unauthorised use of tools. Ensure that the right tools are available for the task. Put a system in place that compels an
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Meet the partners of the Farmer Development Programme
Meet the partners of the Farmer Development Programme August 2022 Another one of Grain SA’s farmer development programme partners is the Kgodiso Development Fund, an independent fund founded by PEPSICO. The fund aims to support the broad socio-economic imperatives of education; small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMES); emerging farmers and enterprise development across PEPSICO’s value
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