In the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), officials have granted licenses to several hundred farmers for hemp production and will provide the growers with training in cultivating the ...

Ro reveals what the research has to say. Horny goat weed is an extract from the epimedium grandiflorum plant, a flowering ...

Earlier this month, a large rural Willowmavin property changed hands after being with the same family for generations, and ...

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Revealing a sensitive germination receptor in parasitic plants brings researchers closer to eradicating a major source of African crop damage and food insecurity. From summer to autumn in sub ...

For generations, people in South Africa's Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalise the crop, they would be first in line to ...

South Africa's highest court has legalised the use of cannabis by adults in private places. Pro-marijuana activists cheered in the public gallery and chanted "Weed are free now" when the ...

As investors in the Americas craved marijuana stocks this week, South Africa was coming to terms with a constitutional court ruling that allowed limited use of marijuana, popularly known as weed.

Studies show that witchweed attacks maize, rice, millet and sorghum, causing an estimated $7 billion-$14 billion of damage to farms in sub-Saharan Africa every year, roughly the same as the United ...