Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) plans to further grow its agriculture lending book in South Africa and other African markets where demand for funding is strong despite tough economic conditions.

We can have different views about the agricultural policies that the South African government adopted since the dawn of democracy, but the one thing we can all agree on, I hope, is that the sector has grown tremendously –

Doing the rounds on social media is an article about the true meaning of regression. The piece by Professor Anthony Turton illustrates the backward trajectory of the South African economy, bringing to mind what happened to so many African states after the colonial powers departed.

It is almost certain that SA’s agricultural economy will contract in 2019, mainly as a result of the poor summer crop harvest coming after drought.

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Smallholder farmers are the drivers of many economies in Africa even though their potential is often not brought forward. ... Smallholder farmers are also defined as those farmers owning small-based plots of land on which they grow subsistence crops and one or two cash crops relying almost exclusively on family labour.