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Tall maize plants beneath a cloudy sky.
Agri Finance

The Crop That Built the KZN Coast

How sugar shaped KwaZulu-Natal?s labour market, population, industrial economy and food system ? and why the future of cane may lie beyond sugar.

13 September 202615 min read
Maize, pap, South African mining, grain silos and rail infrastructure illustrating the history of South Africa’s maize economy.
Agri Finance

Pap Is Ancient. Maize Isn’t.

How a crop from the Americas fed the mines, transformed South African farming and became part of the country’s economic infrastructure.

6 September 20265 min read

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