Farm workers attending the Future of Farmworkers conference, currently underway at the University of the Western Cape, were very vocal about their dissatisfaction with the minimum wage of R18 per hour for their labour that came into effect on January 1 this year.
The meals served to farm workers attending the National Conference on the Future of Farm Workers reminded them of the families they had left behind on the farms, often with little to eat.
An opportunity to join the Fresh Produce Food Safety Research group of Professor Lise Korsten at the University of Pretoria as a Masters student. The project involves investigating the safety for ready-to-at baby vegetables sold within retailers in South Africa; as well as determining the presence of foodborne pathogens as well as determining their virulence and relatedness using innovative and next generation molecular tools.
PhD STUDENT PERSEVERES THROUGH MASTER’S HICCUPS TO URGE CAUTION ON MOROGO’S CARE.
Looking at the entirety of the cucumber agroecosystem – i.e the complete agricultural environment in which cucumbers are grown and harvested – Masters student, Manana Dlangalala is trying to detect the genes that trigger the production of enzymes known as Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase.
An aggressive mushroom pathogen is the focus of a study by Kololwetu Cetyiwe, a University of Pretoria based student funded through the Centre of Excellence in Food Security.