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For the poultry farmer, the clock starts not when the bird leaves the shell, but when the egg first feels the warmth of incubation. The length of that journey - 16 days for a quail, 46 days for an ostrich - can determine how quickly capital returns, how often the...
Tripling a yield is an agronomic problem. Selling the extra harvest at a profit is a market problem, and the two rarely move at the same speed. When Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina opened the eighth SADC Industrialisation Week in Antananarivo on 29 July...
Perishability does not negotiate with customs schedules, and no coordinated agency structure can talk a crate of ripening produce into waiting patiently. A truckload of South African citrus or Zimbabwean horticulture destined for a regional market has hours, not days,...
Hides and skins are, for most Southern African livestock farmers, a by-product rather than a business line — something an abattoir or trader collects almost incidentally to the primary trade in meat, milk or live animals. That treatment is precisely why the region...
Agriculture rarely gets its own line item in a SADC trade communique, and the 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, meeting in Harare on 5 June 2025, was no exception. Yet almost every decision the ministers took bears directly on whether a farmer or agro-processor in...
Eswatini Meat Industries did not simply win a category this week; it won the top overall prize, large-enterprise Company of the Year, in the 2024/25 SADC Quality Awards. That is a meaningful result for a processor operating in an agrifood value chain SADC has long...
A crate of horticultural produce loses value with every hour it spends unrefrigerated at a border post, in a way a container of manufactured goods does not. That asymmetry is why the Report of the Time Release Study (TRS), launched by SADC's Secretariat on 7...
Rural land in Southern Africa holds untapped potential for economic development and wealth creation. With proper planning and innovative approaches, landowners can transform their properties into profitable ventures while contributing to local economies. This article...
Learn how to start a livestock business in Botswana with this comprehensive guide on planning, resources, and sustainable practices for success.