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<title>Agriculture Industry Today: South Africa Farm Subsidies News</title>
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<title>SA sugar industry a significant contribution to economy, Deputy Minister</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185618291</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 18:07 GMT</pubDate>
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... The South African sugar industry is a national asset, Deputy  ...  promotion of black economic-empowerment (BEE) in the agricultural sector. The Inkezo Land Company, operated as  ...  ranks as the sixth-largest agricultural product in South Africa, and that current net proceeds in the  ...
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<title>Southern Africa: Maize May Suffer From High Input Costs</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185379978</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2008 High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in  ...  in the region&apos;s largest producer, a grain farmers&apos; body warned. &quot;The high costs will influence  ...  but they could perhaps subsidise the premiums.&quot; South African maize exports dipped to 529,000 mt during  ...
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<title>Mugabe pays &quot;special tribute&quot; to Mbeki</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185326704</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 23:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  special tribute to President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa for his outstanding role as mediator of  ...  national levels. This past season saw our agricultural yields sharply reduced owing to a combination  ...  are thus being focused on empowering our farmers for greater crop production. Facilities such as  ...
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<title>President Mugabe&apos;s speech to 7th parliament</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185268743</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 16:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  special tribute to President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa for his outstanding role as mediator of  ...  national levels. This past season saw our agricultural yields sharply reduced owing to a combination  ...  are thus being focused on empowering our farmers for greater crop production. Facilities such as  ...
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<title>SOUTH AFRICA: Maize may suffer from high input costs</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185267074</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 16:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  - High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in  ...  in the region&apos;s largest producer, a grain farmers&apos; body warned. &quot;The high costs will influence  ...  but they could perhaps subsidise the premiums.&quot; South African maize exports dipped to 529,000 mt during  ...
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<title>&quot;Let me pay special tribute to President Mbeki&quot; - Mugabe</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185244191</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  special tribute to President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa for his outstanding role as mediator of  ...  national levels. This past season saw our agricultural yields sharply reduced owing to a combination  ...  are thus being focused on empowering our farmers for greater crop production. Facilities such as  ...
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<title>Short-term reigns and long-term gains</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185165659</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 04:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  both markets) and general economic growth (for South Africa only). In other African markets, both authorities  ...  crisis led to shortages, and granaries and farms were set on fire, forcing the government  ...  calendar year 2008. Massive increases in state subsidies, which are expected to double to Dh40bn  ...
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<title>MUGABE OPENS ZIMBABWE&apos;S SEVENTH PARLIAMENT</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185160928</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 03:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the economy. The president expressed gratitude to South African President Thabo Mbeki for his outstanding role  ...  to boost overall economic growth through enhanced agricultural production and industry capacity utilization, President Mugabe  ...  provision of tillage and inputs to selected farmers who would be tasked with producing for  ...
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<title>Don&apos;t hide from the truth</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185145279</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  more accurate to describe it as a subsidy. It&apos;s very hard to get any statistics  ...  skins can certainly be very profitable for farmers (while meat is not always so). You  ...  varieties. Take ostrich, for example - in South Africa, ostrich farms are a developing industry. But  ...
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<title>World Food Crisis (Part II: The Bad News -- and the Case of Africa)</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185133452</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 22:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  worse, since in many regions of Africa, farmers are taking more nutrients out of the  ...  and destroying its structure. This is &quot;organic agriculture&quot; as practiced by the poor who can  ...  which was artificially low because of U.S. subsidies) because of the major increases in production  ...
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