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BY KWANELE TSABEDZE MBABANE – Walala wasala. This idiom encapsulates the situation in the country as farmers take advantage of the Ministry of Agriculture’s farm inputs subsidy programme. This was confirmed today by BuildIt Mbabane and BuildIt Nhlangano as they revealed that some stocks had run out due to high demand and some supply constraints. […]
Continue ReadingBY TSABEDZE KWANELE MBABANE – Minister of Agriculture Jabulani Mabuza has presented a positive report on the on-going Farmer Subsidy program. The government program provides farmers with 65 per cent of the inputs they need for each year so that farmers are not limited by resources in how they produce food for the country. Speaking […]
Continue ReadingBY TSABEDZE KWANELE EZULWINI – Farmers should prepare for a plentiful crop season this summer as the Eswatini Meteorological Services predict normal to above normal levels of rainfall. The weather projection for the summer was publicised by Director of Eswatini Meteorological Services Dudu Nhlengethwa. Speaking during an interview on Eswatini TV yesterday, Nhlengethwa noted that, […]
Continue ReadingBY TSABEDZE KWANELE MSAHWENI – Monitoring and evaluation is arguably the most important part of development. The Minister of Agriculture Jabulani Mabuza and the Ambassador of the European Union took time out to tour the Msahweni Pack House as part of their monitoring and evaluation process for development initiatives in the country. The Msahweni pack […]
Continue ReadingBY TSABEDZE KWANELE MANZINI – The development of farmers, especially women, into effective businesspeople is a positive trend that is evidently on the rise in the country. The most recent development in this area was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Women Farmer Foundation (WFF) and the Eswatini Enterprise Develoment Corporation […]
Continue ReadingBY TSABEDZE KWANELE LUDZELUDZE – The Republic of Taiwan continues to invest in helping Eswatini with food security – not just by donating food for the needy, but also by donating farming equipment to further capacitate the country’s agricultural value chain. Today, the Ambassador of Taiwan as represented by Consular Minister Oliver Han handed over […]
Continue ReadingBY FIONA MOTSA Malkerns- Permaculture is an agricultural system or method that seeks to integrate human activity with natural surroundings so as to create highly efficient self-sustaining ecosystems. It offers high output (yield) while producing little to no waste to land and it is can be applied to everything from our gardens to our communities […]
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