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Black Soldier Fly factory recycles agroprocessing waste
5th February 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Agri-tech company Maltento is transforming South Africa's recycling landscape by breeding black soldier flies to convert agroprocessing waste, including spent grains from the beer industry, into... 


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Sea Harvest to acquire Terrasan’s pelagic business, a portion of its abalone business
23rd January 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Seafood and aquaculture company Sea Harvest aims to acquire 100% of investment group Terrasan’s subsidiaries engaged in the catching, processing and sale of pelagic fish, and 63.07% of Terrasan’s... 


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Huge investment to bring Rwanda water relief
19th January 2024

Development finance institution African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) board in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, announced last month that it had approved loans of over R4.7-billion to Rwanda, to improve the... 


Ever-expanding Maltento eyes opportunities in aquaculture and cosmetics 
4th August 2023 By: Irma Venter

The Maltento insect farm started as a small, test-scale operation in a home bathroom in Craighall Park, Johannesburg.  Almost seven years later, founder and CEO Dean Smorenburg has seen the... 


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Ever-expanding Maltento eyes opportunities in aquaculture, cosmetics
19th July 2023 By: Irma Venter

The Maltento insect farm started as a small, test-scale operation in a home bathroom in Craighall Park, Johannesburg.  Almost seven years later, founder and CEO Dean Smorenburg has seen the... 


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US helps fund water projects
7th July 2023

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced last month that it has committed $3-million to the African Water Facility (AWF). The funding will support the preparation of... 


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Nutrition programme delivering the goods
17th March 2023

South African learners and schools continue to benefit measurably, meaningfully as a result of holistic health and nutrition initiative the Health in Action (HIA) programme. The number of children... 


Sea Harvest takes a further 28% of Viking Aquaculture
8th March 2023 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed seafood and aquaculture company Sea Harvest will acquire a further 28% of the shares in and loan claims against abelone and oyster producer Viking Aquaculture for R210-million. "The... 


Sea Harvest truck
Sea Harvest takes R361m knock on higher input costs, loadshedding
7th March 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed vertically integrated seafood company Sea Harvest has described 2022 as one of the most challenging financial years in the last decade, pointing out that the year was marked by... 


a Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controller fitted to a valve system
Three-millionth valve controller sold
11th November 2022

Last month, global designer and manufacturer Emerson announced that a customer in China has recently purchased the three-millionth Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controller for use in the water... 


Four large valves on a blue chevron background made by Variant Air and distributed by Stewarts & Lloyds
Local supplier adds valves to portfolio
11th November 2022 By: Halima Frost

Steel, tube and valve supplier Stewarts & Lloyds’ Pipes & Fittings division has received its first consignment of vacuum break valves from local valve manufacturer Variant Air and has distributed... 


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Companies collaborate on aquaculture project
14th October 2022 By: Sabrina Jardim

Mechanical seals, pumps and complementary pumps products supplier Mechanical Rotating Solutions (MRS) partnered with international pumps company HCP Pumps to supply axial flow pumps to service the... 


Oceana extends interim CFO’s tenure to January 2023
24th August 2022 By: Donna Slater

JSE-listed fishing company Oceana has been granted a dispensation for the extension of interim CFO Ralph Buddle’s tenure until January 31, 2023. Oceana suspended CFO Hajra Karrim on February 7 and... 


More resilient infrastructure needed  to protect water quality
More resilient infrastructure needed to protect water quality
8th July 2022

Consulting engineers and scientists SRK Consulting partner and principal environmental scientist Manda Hinsch says the quality of drinking water declines when infrastructure is vulnerable to... 


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Association stresses quality control is imperative
1st July 2022

As part of its continuous education process, Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (Sappma) continues to enlighten design engineers, contractors and all users of plastic pipe of... 


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Agriculture continues to outperform nearly all other sectors of South Africa’s economy
1st April 2022 By: Rebecca Campbell

Over the past two years the agriculture sector has been one of the few very stars in the firmament of the South African economy. In 2020 and 2021, agriculture was one of only four sectors of the... 


Unitrans Africa acquires crop-spraying drones as it pursues cost, enviro and other advantages
21st January 2022 By: Irma Venter

Unitrans Africa has acquired a fleet of the world’s largest spraying drones. The seven Chinese-made DJI T30 Agras drones were developed at a cost of more than R400-million. The T30 drones are... 


Women-developed products launched with the help of the Technology Innovation Agency
30th August 2021 By: Donna Slater

Five women-led products and innovations, developed with the assistance of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), were launched and showcased to the market on August 30. The products include... 


Sea Harvest posts R323m interim profit
Sea Harvest posts R323m interim profit
30th August 2021 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Seafood manufacturer Sea Harvest has achieved headline earnings growth of 19% year-on-year to R202-million for the six months ended June 30. This while earnings a share came in 27% higher... 


gardening tools in garden soil among vegetation
Garden project boosts local nutrition
20th August 2021

Power tools and hardware wholesaler Matus South Africa’s premier garden brand Aquacraft partnered with Johannesburg-based nongovernmental organisation Siyakhana on an organic vegetable garden... 


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Digital water-quality monitoring and reporting tool coming to market
6th August 2021 By: Darren Parker

Financial advisory firm Bosch Capital has been appointed by environmental and water governance, risk and compliance specialist Carin Bosman Sustainable Solutions (CBSS) to support the commercial... 


Agriculture seen as key just transition enabler in Mpumalanga, but arable land needs urgent safeguarding
Agriculture seen as key just transition enabler in Mpumalanga, but arable land needs urgent safeguarding
25th March 2021 By: Terence Creamer

Transitioning Mpumalanga’s coal-heavy economy to higher levels of agricultural output could help create new businesses and jobs and improve the long-term economic resilience of the province as... 


DEFF issues yellow alert for harmful West Coast red tide, partners prepare for red alert
18th January 2021 By: Schalk Burger

Following the build-up of harmful algal blooms - called red tides - on the West Coast over the past few weeks, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) has issued a Situation... 


Western Cape welcomes agriculture interns
11th December 2020 By: Yvonne Silaule

About 120 agricultural graduate interns took up their two-year internship within the Western Cape agriculture sector on December 9. Western Cape Agriculture Minister Ivan Meyer welcomed the... 


Focus set on intellectual support services
14th August 2020

Hard face solution provider Rio-Carb is altering its business model to focus more on providing intellectual support services and is employing its own engineers to assist customers in all aspects of... 


WATER GATE
The scour gate developed by Amanziflow allows for the effective flushing of sediment from a dam increasing its storage capacity
Tech solution enhances water security in S Africa
3rd July 2020 By: Halima Frost

The self-automated scour gate is a technology which has been developed and refined by local water engineering contractors Amanziflow Projects to promote water security. Amanziflow Projects MD Peter... 


SUCK JOB
A fit-for-purpose dewatering solution from Integrated Pump Rental is successfully desilting farm dams
Farmers urged to de-silt dams before dry season
1st May 2020

As the dry season approaches in many parts of South Africa, farmers need to ensure that silt is not limiting the volume of water that they can store, says specialist pump rental company Integrated... 


Covid-19 lockdowns, rand depreciation set to accelerate food inflation
24th April 2020 By: Rebecca Campbell

The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has, in its latest brief report Food price outlook for Quarter 2 2020 and beyond, warned that food prices in South Africa are set to rise during... 


Half of South Africans in a ‘precarious nutrition situation’
10th April 2020 By: Rebecca Campbell

Independent research body the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has warned that poorer households in South Africa would be put at risk, in terms of both their nutrition and health, if... 


South African production of key foods good to reasonable
10th April 2020 By: Rebecca Campbell

An independent research centre, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP), has published an overview of five key foods produced in South Africa, as part of its analysis of the food and... 


World Bank Chief Economist for Africa Albert Zeufack
World Bank warns of big South Africa GDP slump and first SSA recession in 25 years as Covid-19 bites
9th April 2020 By: Terence Creamer

The World Bank is forecasting that gross domestic product in South Africa could slump by between 6.9 percentage points and 8 percentage points in 2020 when compared with a base case that does not... 


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For the sugar industry, Bosch Projects provides front-end cane offloading, cane preparation, juice extraction, sugar processing, sugar drying and refining equipment
Equipment design vital for sugar industry
27th March 2020 By: Mamaili Mamaila

A critical aspect of servicing the sugar industry is equipment design, says integrated engineering technology and project management company Bosch Projects sugar sector director Steve Rosettenstein. 


Sea Harvest expects higher headline earnings
Sea Harvest expects higher headline earnings
18th February 2020 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE-listed Sea Harvest says its South African fishing operation and its Ladismith Cheese operation made solid contributions to the group’s overall financial performance for the year ended December... 


L2D launches rooftop aquaponics farm at Eastgate shopping centre
29th November 2019 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Real estate investment trust Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) on Friday launched a rooftop aquaponics farm district at its Eastgate shopping centre, in Bedfordview. The farm is a first for the company’s... 


'Perfect storm' awaits farming and fisheries if world doesn't curb emissions
28th November 2019 By: Reuters

The world needs to urgently cut its planet-warming greenhouse-gas emissions to avoid a "perfect storm" that will lead to simultaneous falls in food production from both farming and marine... 


AgriProtein fly farming
Maggot farmer to expand from Cape Town to California
31st October 2019 By: Bloomberg

The company behind the world’s first industrial-scale maggot farm based on organic waste plans to kick off its international expansion with a plant in California next year, taking advantage of two... 


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