CAPE MECHANISATION
August 1st, 2001
BY RICHARD HURST, in JohannesburgTHE SOUTH African agriculture and land minister Thoko Didiza has urged wine growers in the Western Cape to embrace automation in the industry, to deal with the loss of low paid labourers who have left the region's agricultural industries since the onset of black majority rule in 1994.The minister said that there was a need to inject new practices, techniques and machinery into the industry, adding that wine and fruit farmers were in a better position to investigate new ideas and innovations since they enjoyed a greater exposure to ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.