Researchers | ||||||
Category | Supervising agency | Executing agency | Research focus | Head count | FTEs | Year |
Federal | Agricultural Research Council | Grain Crops Institute (GCI) | Groundnuts, sunflower, soybeans, dry beans, lupines, cowpeas | 45 | 45.0 | 2000 |
Small Grain Institute (SGI) | Corn, nuts, soybeans, sorghum | 31 | 31.0 | 2000 | ||
Institute for Industrial Crops (IIC) | Indigenous fiber, hemp, flax, cotton | 18 | 18.0 | 2000 | ||
Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute (VOPI) | Vegetables, potatoes, ornamental plants | 40 | 40.0 | 2000 | ||
Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops (ITSC) | Citrus, sub-tropical fruits, nuts | 37 | 37.0 | 2000 | ||
Infruitec Nietvoorbij (NIETV) | Grapes, other fruits | 87 | 87.0 | 2000 | ||
Rangeland Forage Institute (RFI) | Natural resources, pastures, forages | 30 | 30.0 | 2000 | ||
Animal Improvement Institute (AII) | Beef, dairy, sheep, goat swine | 43 | 43.0 | 2000 | ||
Animal Nutrition and Products Institute (ANPI) | Off-farm post harvest, beef, dairy, swine | 32 | 32.0 | 2000 | ||
Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) | Beef, sheep, goat, swine, dairy | 75 | 75.0 | 2000 | ||
Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI) | Natural resources, biosystematics, pesticide dynamics | 82 | 82.0 | 2000 | ||
Institute for Agricultural Engineering (IAE) | 22 | 22.0 | 2000 | |||
Institute for Soil Climate and Water (ISCW) | Natural resources | 57 | 57.0 | 2000 | ||
Central Office (CO) | 35 | 35.3 | 2000 | |||
Department of Agriculture | Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute (GADI) | Sheep, goats, pastures, forages | 7 | 3.5 | 2000 | |
Directorate of Marine and Coastal Management | Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) | |||||
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | Division of Food Biological and Chemical Technologies (Bio/Chemtek) | Off-farm post harvest | 15 | 7.5 | 2000 | |
Division of Water, Environment, and Forestry (Environmentek) | 18 | 18.0 | 2000 | |||
Provincial | — | Dohne Agricultural Development Institute | 10 | 5.0 | 2000 | |
— | Free State Department of Agriculture, Glen | 6.8 | 2000 | |||
— | Northwest Department of Agriculture, Potchefstroom | Vegetable, corn, sheep, goat, pastures, forages | 23 | 4.6 | 2000 | |
— | Kwazulu-Natal Department of Agriculture, Cedara | Beef, pastures, forages, sheep, goat | 42 | 8.4 | 2000 | |
— | Mpumalang Department of Agriculture, Nelspruit | Pastures, forages, sheep, goats, beef, crops | 6.0 | 2000 | ||
— | Western Cape Department of Agriculture , Elsenburg | 61 | 30.5 | 2000 | ||
— | Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Upington | Natural resources, sheep, goats, beef | 6.0 | 2000 | ||
Non-profit | South African Sugar Association (SASA) | Experiment Station | Sugar | 49 | 25.0 | 2000 |
— | Institute for Commercial Forestry Research (ICFR) | Forestry | 16 | 16.0 | 2000 | |
South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR) | Ocenanographic Research Institute (ORI) | Marine fisheries, natural resources | 15 | 15.0 | 2000 | |
Higher Education | University of Cape Town | School of Economics | Natural resources, tobacco | 3 | 0.3 | 2000 |
University of Fort Hare | Faculty of Agriculture | 26 | 3.9 | 2000 | ||
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences | Wheat, natural resources, off-farm post harvest, pasture, forages | 54 | 18.9 | 2000 | ||
University of Natal | School of Agricultural Sciences and Agribusiness and School of Applied and Environmental Sciences | Socio-economics, poultry, swine, sugarcane | 62 | 18.6 | 2000 | |
University of the North | Faculty of Sciences, Health and Agriculture | 17 | 3.3 | 2000 | ||
Technikon South Africa | Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences | Natural resources | 21 | 5.2 | 2000 | |
Port Elizabeth Technikon | Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Civil Engineering | Sheep, goat, wheat, pasture, forages, socio-economics | 5 | 2.0 | 2000 | |
University of Pretoria | Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences | Sheep, goat, poultry, wildlife, natural resources | 107 | 32.1 | 2000 | |
Faculty of Veterinary Science | 111 | 38.8 | 2000 | |||
University of Stellenbosch | Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences | Forestry, livestock, crops | 94 | 28.2 | 2000 | |
University of Venda | School of Agriculture, Rural Development and Forestry | Vegetable, crops, livestock, socio-economics, off-farm post harvest | 33 | 6.6 | 2000 | |
University of North West | Faculty of Agriculture | |||||
University of Zululand | School of Agriculture | |||||
Private Enterprises | Capesan Technology Development | Fruits | 8 | 8.0 | 2000 | |
Intervet | Melelane Research Unit | Sheep, goats, dairy | 2 | 2.0 | 2000 | |
— | DFPT/Hortech | Fruits | 9 | 9.0 | 2000 | |
— | Kynoch Agronomy Research | Corn, wheat, precision farming | 4 | 4.0 | 2000 | |
— | Grain SA R&D Unit | Corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, soybean, sunflower, groundnuts | 5 | 5.0 | 2000 | |
— | Dow Agrosciences | Corn, wheat, potato, vegetables, sugarcane | 3 | 3.0 | 2000 | |
— | Sugar Milling Research Institute | Sugarcane | 18 | 12.0 | 2000 | |
— | Epol Technical Department | 1 | 0.5 | 2000 | ||
— | Forestwood cc | Natural resources | 1 | 1.0 | 2000 | |
- ASTI country brief on South Africa, 2004 (PDF 226K)