Agricol

Spouting Success  With a legacy of over five decades, Agricol is a well-established South African seed company with 180 agents and nine branches across the country. The company is involved with plant breeding, seed production, international trade, and the processing…

Emman Farming Enterprises

Leading the innovative charge for Zambian feedstock production As you proceed along a quiet, tranquil country road some 30km outside Luanshya in the Mpongwe area of Zambia there suddenly appears a magnificent, state of the art feedstock production facility that…

Greenbelt Fertilisers

Better Crops, Better for the Environment Greenbelt imports raw materials from around the world, blends these materials to meet client farmer’s specific soil and crop requirements to help them maximise yield and minimize costs in their farming operations. Incorporated in…

Deep Blue Aqua

The standard in aquaculture Deep Blue Aqua started in 2008 just as the world was experiencing what’s come to be known as the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Started by Brynn Simpson…

AfricanBrains this month

Livin’ La Vida Locust Agriculture is a major source of livelihood for many Africans and Marc Mcilhone takes us into the creepy crawly side of the business. “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered…

Ripe With $1 Trillion of Opportunities

Maize, Rice, Beef, oh my! Africa’s food market is currently valued at US$313 billion a year. It’s believed this could triple if farmers modernised their practices and had better access to credit, new technologies, irrigation and fertilisers. Africa is a…

WVAMK

The Benchmark in Seed Potatoes Fifty years ago, a farmer named Theo Cook travelled back from Scotland to South Africa. With him, he had a white, smooth potato called the Up-to-Date, which is indigenous to the United Kingdom. He planted…

Farm and City Centre and Vetco

Joining together again in providing the best one-stop shop for customers Farm and City Centre of Harare, Zimbabwe has a rich and storied history dating back more than a century, with origins in those early years as a farmers’ cooperative.…