She focuses on the 2 August issue of Farmer’s Weekly, in which the magazine follows up on issues that the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, touched on in her budget vote address recently. Didiza announced that R400 million will be made available for the Agricultural Research Council to establish a foot and mouth disease facility. There is a story about milk production figures that seems much better. Farmer’s Weekly also speaks to a farmer in the drought-affected Northern Cape.

That was Denine Erasmus, editor of Farmer's Weekly, on OFM. To listen to this insert again, go to ofm.co.za, click on News, Agriculture, and Before Dawn. To listen to these inserts again go to ofm.co.za, click on News, Agriculture and Before Dawn.

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