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            <description><![CDATA[Energy solutions company Rentech is highlighting the long-term financial and operational benefits of solar energy for the agricultural sector, despite persistent concerns among some farmers about upfront costs and system viability. Speaking to Engineering News at Nampo Harvest Day 2026, Rentech business manager Jaco Weideman said rising electricity tariffs were improving the business case for solar installations, enabling farmers to generate savings that could be reinvested into their operations.]]></description>
            <author>Mariaan Webb</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Diversified chemicals group Omnia is using Nampo Harvest Day 2026 to highlight its response to global fertiliser market uncertainty, with the company having made significant supply chain investments to secure input availability ahead of the summer planting season.

Engineering News spoke to Omnia executive director Stephan Serfontein, who outlined the group’s response to ongoing instability in the Middle East. He said the company had invested heavily in its supply chain to maintain security of supply for farmers, despite the pressures bearing down on input costs globally.]]></description>
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            <title>Sea Harvest delivers 87% increase in attributable interim profit</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After facing low catch rates and peak fuel prices in the last three years, JSE-listed fishing company Sea Harvest Group has delivered a 58% increase in earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) to R590-million for the six months ended June 30.  

The group’s Ebit margin also improved from 11% in the prior comparable six months to 13% in the six months under review. 

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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>AQUACULTURE &amp; FOOD </category>
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            <title>DFFE, under Minister George, celebrates one year of protecting South Africa's environmental future</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Dr Dion George says his first year in office under the Government of National Unity has laid the foundation for a greener, more inclusive and more dynamic environmental future for South Africa. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) protected endangered species, empowered coastal communities, cleaned up systems, strengthened institutions and affirmed South Africa's role on the world stage during the year, he said.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s agriculture sector has come under increasing pressure to diversify into new markets amid turbulent world market dynamics driven by radical shifts in US trade policy. During a webinar hosted by Creamer Media on May 28, panel facilitator Professor Johann Kirsten, of the Bureau for Economic Research director at Stellenbosch University, noted that trade became unstable in the global environment, and questioned whether a multi-polar is replacing multilateralism.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Sea Harvest profit dips on low catch rates, tough market conditions </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE-listed seafood, aquaculture and agroprocessing company Sea Harvest says last year was its toughest financial year since listing on the JSE in 2017, with its performance having been impacted on by poor hake catch rates in South Africa, as well as poor prawn catch rates in Australia. 

The company also cited weak market conditions in abalone, continued soft global prawn pricing and high interest rates as challenges experienced during the reporting year. 

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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>FOOD &amp; BEVERAGE</category>
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            <title>CSIR develops satellite tool to sound alert on red tides</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Abalone farmers along the South African coastline now have access to an online tool, developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), that allows them to track marine algal blooms that could harm their harvest. The CSIR’s Dr Marié Smith is the lead expert behind the Fisheries and Aquaculture Decision Support Tool of the National Oceans and Coastal Information Management System (OCIMS).]]></description>
            <author>Irma Venter</author>
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            <title>Tanzanian startup scaling sustainable fertiliser, fish feed solutions </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The high cost and inconsistent quality of feedstock for fish in Tanzania and other African countries negatively impacts on the region’s aquaculture growth landscape and competitiveness, says agriculture company NovFeed, which produces affordable and sustainable fish feed and fertiliser at scale in the country. 

Founder and CEO Diana Orembe says farmers invest heavily in feed that is often imported, which cuts into their profit margins, while there is also a limited quantity of sustainable fertiliser produced on the African continent. 
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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Kelp Blue Plans to issue Africa’s first corporate blue bond</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Kelp Blue plans to issue Africa’s first corporate blue bond next year to expand its giant kelp forests along Namibia’s coast. The De Beers-backed startup will list the first $20-million tranche of a four-year program, in which it seeks to raise as much as N$3-billion, on the country’s stock exchange in 2025, it said in response to emailed questions Wednesday.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <title>South Africa, Chile collaborate to advance sustainable fisheries, aquaculture </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The governments of South Africa and Chile have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on fisheries and aquaculture. 

The countries will soon establish a joint technical committee to oversee the implementation of initiatives and coordinate regular bilateral meetings to ensure ongoing cooperation. 
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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Firm makes aquaponics, water treatment  breakthrough</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Water treatment supplier Fine Bubble Technologies (FBT) is making significant strides in the agriculture and aquaculture sectors with its nano bubble system, enhancing water treatment efficiency and contributing to sustainable farming practices. The system has innovative applications, with potential to address broader water treatment challenges, particularly in water-scarce regions of South Africa, says CEO Paul Botha.]]></description>
            <author>Simone Liedtke</author>
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            <title>Aquaculture a 'powerful means to address food and nutrition security across Africa' – Singh</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Globally, aquaculture contributes more than 50% of all aquatic products, thereby making a significant contribution to the transformation of food production systems. The continued expansion of aquaculture offered a powerful means to address food and nutrition security and promote equitable benefits across communities in Africa, said Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Deputy Minister Narend Singh.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and water treatment technology company Fine Bubble Technologies have launched a nanobubble aquaponics pilot plant at De Grendel School of Skills, in Cape Town, that may increase yield by 50%. Aquaponics is an integration of aquaculture, or fish farming, and hydroponics. The pilot plant will aim to demonstrate the use of nanobubble technology to enhance the efficiency of water, oxygen uptake and nutrient delivery in aquaponics, thus reducing the need for chemical fertilisers.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>SPS commissions R135m solar project at Aqunion abalone farm</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sustainable Power Solutions (SPS) has started to test and commission a R135-million solar PV and battery solution project for abalone farmer Aqunion, a subsidiary of the Sea Harvest Group. Construction of the solar system began in November last year.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Retail group Massmart will sponsor Honours level postgraduate research in the University of Witwatersrand’s (Wits’) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology aimed at improving the technique used to extract genetic material from tinned seafood products. 

Massmart uses genetic identity testing, in partnership with Wits, as an added precaution to ensure the company is not supplied with red-listed or critically endangered seafood species. 

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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Algae offers new carbon  emissions solution </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 consuming vegetables on a daily basis in 342 schools in at-risk communities in Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape has increased by 494% between 2019 and 2022.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Sea Harvest takes a further 28% of Viking Aquaculture</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 further acquisition fits within Sea Harvest’s investment criteria and increases Sea Harvest’s ownership in Viking Aquaculture from 54% to 82%, allowing Sea Harvest to integrate Viking Aquaculture, extract operational synergies and align operating structure, growth strategies and funding requirements with that of Sea Harvest," the company said in an announcement on March 8.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 unprecedented input cost increases and 10% lower available volumes. 

The group nonetheless managed contain its headline earnings decreasing beyond 33% and to grow its revenue by 27% year-on-year to R5.9-billion for the year ended December 31. 
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            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 treatment pressure control valve in a membrane plant. A digital valve controller helps regulate and monitor the opening and closing of a control valve, and it also provides a wealth of information with respect to valve status and health.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 the stock to its outlets for sale to clients.  Stewarts & Lloyds has been selected as an agent for the full range of Variant Air vacuum break valves, with the manufacturer to provide quality service and technical support.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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The Variant Air range of valves is now made of molybdenum reinforced nylon 11, which has little to no resale value making it a less desirable option for thieves</image_title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 recirculated aquaculture system (RAS) of an aquaculture farm in the Eastern Cape. The project, completed in July, required the augmenting of the RAS with the correct equipment, which MRS CEO Franscois Steenkamp says enables the system to control the overall environment and ensure optimum water quality and temperature, consequently guaranteeing optimal, sustainable fish farming.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 appointed Buddle in an acting capacity from February 23.
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            <author>Donna Slater</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 natural disasters. The comment was made on the back of recent flood-related damage to water infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal, which has added to South Africa’s water quality risks and highlights the need for greater resilience of treatment plants, pipes and drains.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 the critical importance of getting the highest quality of polymers in the products they specify or procure. “The controlling product standards, national and international, of high-density polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride pipes are very clear about the importance of the quality of polymers,” says Sappma CEO Jan Venter.]]></description>
            <author>Halima Frost</author>
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Sappma continues to shine a light on the need for quality products and materials to its members</image_title>
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