The first disease-free dry beans
Jul 02, 2021
3 minutes
In the late 1970s, major breakthroughs in the production of disease-free dry beans heralded a boom for farmers in terms of higher yields.
Boom times are ahead for dry-bean growers in South Africa, with yields likely to rise by 25% or more with the introduction next September of the country’s first disease-free seed.
This fillip to South Africa’s R28 million [about R832 million] annual dry-bean industry will see farmers putting substantially
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