Ariston business interests span a variety of crops including tea, macadamia, banana, apples, peaches, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, maize, soya beans and it has poultry and beef cattle. The operations of the tea growing units are fully integrated with the Blended Tea...
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Farming
The Agriconomy of South Africa
South Africa is a diverse agricultural economy made up of 40,000 commercial farms according to the recently published Census of Commercial Agriculture (CoCA) of 2017 Report. An agricultural powerhouse that feeds Africa, its economic health affects many other countries...
From Fall Creek to Kavango: Whether Mashare’s Blueberry Value Chain Actually Adds Up
US genetics, Namibian sun and a European shelf. The value is in the chain, not the crop.
From Field to Plate: What a Single Investor Board Could Mean for Namibian Agritech
Namibia grows too little of what it eats. The new board’s sector-promotion brief now includes helping to close that gap.
Saving the Breeding Herd: How Fodder and Vaccines Defend a Livestock Value Chain
A drought’s lasting damage is the breeding stock it kills; the programme spends to keep the productive animals alive.
Drought and Drip Line: How the Growth Summit’s Money Could Reach Namibian Farms
Namibia held an investment summit in the middle of its worst drought in decades. Agriculture was where the need was sharpest.
Land That Pays Twice: How Brandberg Diversifies a Fragile Conservancy Economy
On arid communal land, the safest income is a mixed one. Brandberg is really a land-use strategy.
Funding Farmer Stella: The Complexity of Agri-Financing in Zimbabwe
(Zimbabwe) - Meet Stella Masukume, in the middle of her field of cabbages almost ready for the market. She is a farmer in Nyabira, a farming community just outside Harare on your way to Chinhoyi. She grows vegetables, maize, beans, tobacco and chickens, with ability...