AGRI NEWS NET

For months now, South Africa’s livestock farmers have been watching helplessly as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD / bek-en-klouseer) spreads across provinces like wildfire.

Ferritin reflects stored iron, while transferrin saturation reflects how much iron is circulating and metabolically active. These two values must always be interpreted together.

South Africa, a powerhouse of African agriculture with $13.7 billion in exports in 2024, faces a mounting crisis as its infrastructure deteriorates, threatening food security for millions. Decades of mismanagement, corruption, and underinvestment have left roads, rail, ports, electricity, and water systems in disarray, directly impacting the agricultural supply chain. From rolling blackouts to collapsing rail networks and water shortages, these failures are driving up food production costs, disrupting exports, and exacerbating hunger, particularly in vulnerable communities.

The African Penguin, a symbol of South Africa, faces extinction in the wild by 2035 unless immediate steps are taken. In late 2024, the species was declared critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, marking it as the first among 18 penguin species to reach this status.

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