The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development’s Veterinary Services has launched a Sheep Scab Campaign in some parts of the province. The aim of the campaign is to educate farmers about control measures of the disease and their duties as stipulated in the Animal Diseases Act. The theme for the Campaign is “War against Sheep Scab”.
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The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development in-conjuction with South African Poultry Association will be launching Poultry Farmers Association in the Province. . The launch will be in Kuruman in the John Taolo District on the 16-17 April 2012.
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development’s Veterinary Services held a two day Scientific Workshop in Upington on the 7& 8 December 2011. The objective of the workshop was to provide scientific information to officials and further share new approaches on scientific control methods. The theme for this year’ scientific workshop is
The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development’s Veterinary Service is appealing to all farmers to vaccinate their livestock before the rainy season starts. Early this year the department experienced an outbreak of the Rift Valley Fever where two human cases were confirmed in the Calvinia area. A farmer and a farm
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is calling on everyone to be mindful of the fact that various diseases harmful to human health can be transmitted to people through the consumption of contaminated food. The department is advising communities to ensure that they source meat and diary products at registered outlets. Meat
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), in partnership with Total South Africa hosted the annual Female Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at a gala dinner in Kimberley yesterday, 23 March 2012. In her congratulatory remarks Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said “our aim is to create female entrepreneurs who
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) will host the annual Female Entrepreneur of the Year Awards at the Mittah Seperepere Convention Centre in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on Friday 23 March 2012. The DAFF Female Entrepreneur Programme, a joint venture between the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and Total SA seeks to
As part of celebrating women’s month, the Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development in the Northern Cape will be hosting a two day summit to Advance Women in Rural Development on the 17th-19 August 2010 in Douglas. The aim of the summit is to give women in rural areas and farms an opportunity
The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development urges all farmers and land users to prepare themselves in combating possible veld fires occurring throughout the province. Large parts of the Northern Cape Province are prone to veld fires, especially this time of the year. These sporadic blazes are in the main sparked
The Northern Cape Government is to unveil on Saturday, 18 April 2009 one of its flagship land restitution projects that had been transformed into an ‘entrepreneurially sound land reform success case.’ The Droogfontein community outside Kimberley were restituted in 2006 to the tune of R43 million with ownership of 12 057 arable and grazing land amid having been forcefully removed from their ancestral land in 1947.