Items tagged with south africa and traditional growers
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| Cannabis industry plans for South Africa have stalled: how to get them moving again [24.03.2023] | The opportunity to commercialise the hemp and cannabis industry in South Africa is that it is a new, fast-growing, multi-billion dollar sector with l ... |
| Farmers say making dagga legal has only made them poorer [01.03.2023] | Small-scale cannabis farmers in the rural parts of the Eastern Cape are feeling the pinch of obtaining farming licences. This is particularly difficu ... |
| Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet [13.12.2022] | The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ n ... |
| Pondoland: South Africa's cannabis growers left behind by legalisation plans [21.08.2022] | For generations, people in South Africa's Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalis ... |
| Rural dagga farmers – the same ones highlighted by Ramaphosa – say they'll be 'criminalised' by new laws [02.06.2022] | Traditional cannabis growers in the rural Eastern Cape, the same ones assured of inclusion by President Cyril Ramaphosa, are objecting to proposed la ... |
| South Africa’s cannabis master plan will finally establish a regulated industry [07.09.2021] | South Africa’s new master plan is a bright spark for those dismayed by lawmakers’ previous attempts to reform the country’s cannabis laws. Introduced ... |
| ‘Protect our local dagga strains from intellectual property theft,’ Parliament told [01.09.2021] | The Eastern Cape government is calling for the protection of the local cannabis industry in South Africa. Dohne Agricultural Development Institute re ... |
| A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers [16.04.2021] | Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustaina ... |
| Cannabis: Black farmers to ‘shut down’ regulator [23.03.2021] | The Black Farmers' Association of South Africa (BFASA) have threatened to shut down the regulatory authority for allegedly excluding them from opport ... |
| amaMpondo traditional leaders reject Private Use Cannabis Bill [10.10.2020] | Traditional leaders from the amaMpondo nation and cannabis farmers in the Eastern Cape have rejected the Private Use Cannabis Bill. They are calling ... |
| Cannabis: A rush to corporate capture? [30.09.2020] | Finance minister Tito Mboweni expects the newly legal cannabis industry to pour an estimated R4 billion into the government’s dwindling tax coffers w ... |
| Cannabis Bill carries harsh penalties [14.08.2020] | If a person is found with more than 1kg of dried cannabis or nine flowering plants they could be jailed for up to 15 years. These are just some of th ... |
| Cannabis cultivation could be a key economic driver for reconstruction after Covid-19 [20.04.2020] | The potential for cannabis in South Africa is enormous. The country has drought-resistant acclimatised genetic strains that have naturalised over hun ... |
| SA and legal cannabis: profits should be reaped, but like any industry, there are also risks [21.01.2020] | South Africa’s cannabis conversation is shifting into a new gear, with Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on the record as pushing for full legalisation. ... |
| Sars would benefit if growing cannabis is legalised, says Tito Mboweni [18.01.2020] | Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s tweet about pushing for it to be legal to grow cannabis - for the SA Revenue Service’s sake - is a step in the direct ... |
| South Africa's black farmers fight to enter marijuana market [08.01.2020] | Following the Constitutional Court's decision in 2018 to decriminalize the personal use and cultivation of cannabis in South Africa, there are concer ... |
| Dagga prohibition needs to end [15.10.2019] | Despite the far-sighted rulings by Judge Dennis Davis and two colleagues in the Cape High Court, and then the unanimous Constitutional Court, that al ... |
| “People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade [14.10.2019] | As South Africa looks to enter the booming commercial cannabis market, which could be worth up to R27 billion locally by 2023, the Eastern Cape Depar ... |
| Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers [04.10.2019] | No one knows with confidence how many small-scale cannabis farmers there are in South Africa, but the number is large: one organisation estimates 900 ... |
| 'Swazi Gold' dagga farmers fear new SA law could crush them [10.06.2019] | Mbuso has been growing cannabis for 14 years. He lives and tends the illicit crop in Swaziland, which is now known officially as Eswatini. Mbuso is j ... |
| Dagga cultivators aren’t too pleased about the court’s decision [25.09.2018] | Dagga growers in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape are far from happy that the “holy herb” has been legalised for personal use, saying their businesses ... |
| Cash crops poisoned in Pondoland [07.04.2016] | The villagers keep watch from January, waiting for police helicopters to thud over the hills. Every year, for nearly three decades, their plantations ... |
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