Agri Portal
22
Feb
2012
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Who is Zinchem? Zinchem is a division of the R1 billion a year Zimco Group of companies which forms part of the international Ecobat group.Zinchem supplies both local and international markets from a plant in Benoni,just ouside Johannesburg.Zinchem was founded after the Second World War as a division of Anglo American at the time,to produce Zinc Dust,which was used for gold cementation in cyanide solutions. Through the adoption of best-practice pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processe. Zinchem converts primary an Secondary Zinc to superior quality Zinc chemicals, Chemicals and Zinc Alloysin accordance with the highest international standards. Our product range includes grades…
21
Feb
2012
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Farmer John Says
Andrew Kenny of the Citizen wrote the following: There has been a confused uproar over the claim by Pieter Mulder, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, that Bantu people occupied only 60% of the present South Africa when the whites arrived. The first modern human inhabitants of South Africa arrived over 100 000 years ago. They were the Bushmen (now insultingly called “San”) and similar people.About 2 000 years ago the Bantu entered from the north. “Bantu”, which means “human”, describes the people who evolved in West Africa and then radiated east and south into the rest of Africa. By genetic diversity,…
18
Feb
2012
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ZANU PF ministers and other influential officials are under investigation for plundering Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots and looting inputs for the 2011/12 agricultural season, particularly fertiliser, thus sabotaging agricultural production at a time when starvation is stalking some regions of the country. The move, which has angered small-scale farmers and villagers, would have a profound effect on the country's food security situation and Zanu PF's political fortunes during the next elections. Zimbabwe is facing a major food crisis after the Agricultural Technical and Extension Services revealed only 247 000 hectares of maize was planted countrywide by December 31 last…
17
Feb
2012
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Land Bank is a specialist agricultural bank guided by a government mandate to provide financial services to the commercial farming sector and to agri-business and to make available new, appropriately designed financial products that would facilitate access to finance by new entrants to agriculture from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.Today, the Bank is a true South African development finance institution that serves all farmers equally. The mission of Land Bank is: To develop and provide appropriate products for commercial and development clients. To leverage private sector investment into the agricultural sector. To develop partnerships with intermediaries for on lending. To develop techniques…
15
Feb
2012
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Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi President of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)From this podium, I have said that the failure of government is the failure of South Africa. What I have to say today, I say for the love of country. When I speak, I do so to be constructive. Mr President, we have heard your speech, your hopes and your plans, and we desire nothing more than to be able to have confidence in them. Yet, too much prevents us from doing so. How can we embrace hope when our leadership refuses to acknowledge the many problems confronting our country, or…
13
Feb
2012
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* Court to rule Monday on farmer's weedkiller poisoning * Case against Monsanto 1st such claim to reach French court * Pesticide makers see no evidence of major health risk By Marion Douet PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A legal battle pitching a French farmer against the world's largest seed company could lend weight to health claims against pesticides if a court finds on Monday that Monsanto was at fault in a case of chemical poisoning. In the first such case to be heard in court in France, grain grower Paul Francois says he suffered neurological problems including memory loss,…
13
Feb
2012
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Naill Ferguson reckons the developing world can use these apps to improve economic development. JOHANNESBURG - The world is currently seeing a massive rebalancing of economic power. The gap between the West (read the US and Europe) and the South/East (the rest) has started to close and this phenomenon brings an end to nearly five millennia of Western dominance. The economic historian Niall Ferguson recently labelled this re-convergence of economic power as the greatest event of our lifetimes. This divergence started in the early 1500s and having climaxed in the late 1970s, it has started to rescind with the rise…
