OrganicAgricultural Writers SA's !Xhariep regional awards honoured an organic vegetable grower who began with five tilapia, a citrus enterprise built by 17 Sundays River Valley producers, and a Grabouw apple farmer whose packhouse throughput rose by two-thirds.
BangladeshMeeting a Bangladesh Krishak Samity delegation at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said a President's Agriculture Award would be launched for farm innovation and called for an effective marketing system so farmers get a fair price.
At the 2026 SA Olive Awards in Paarl, industry chairman Richard Allen warned that recovering global supply and lower prices are pressing small producers to become more efficient, judges from Brazil and Turkey noted rising quality, Het Vlock Casteel's Denise Bergman was named an Agri Worker of the Ye
The Women in Agricultural Innovation Award, which began in 2025 as the Women in AgRobotics of the Year Award won by Arha Padman of Niqo Robotics, now covers precision agriculture, data and AI, biotech, sensors, software and irrigation, with the winner honoured at FIRA USA in Yakima on 20-22 October.
The Braddock, Kellogg, Hammersmith, McKown, Wolfe families and Turpin Farms will be honoured on 24 September at Farm Science Review in a programme founded by Ohio Farmer magazine and now run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
