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Shaping Research & Development. 

Empowering the Industry's Future.


RMRD SA funds and coordinates research across the pork, large stock, and small stock industries, 

so they can produce profitably and sustainably and stay globally competitive.


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CATTLE & SMALL STOCK FOCUS AREAS

 

7

PORK PRIORITY AREAS

 

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FUNDING SOURCES

 

4 Year

LEVY FUNDING CYCLE

 

RESEARCH FOCUS

Two Streams, 

One Goal

RMRD SA funds and coordinates research across the pork, large stock, and small stock industries, helping producers remain profitable and sustainable while staying globally competitive.


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Cattle & Small Stock

Seven focus areas: natural resources, livestock production, animal health and welfare, products and value-adding, economics, predation management, and livestock theft prevention.

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Pork

Research serving South Africa's pig industry: improving competitiveness, promoting consumption, and sharing information across the supply chain through seven priority areas.

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Technology Transfer

Moving knowledge, techniques, and processes out of the lab and into practice so research translates into real change on farms and across the sector.
ABOUT RMRD SA

Funding research under the 

Red Meat Industry Forum.

RMRD SA is an umbrella organisation with a mandate for research and development in the red meat sector. We finance projects run by recognised research institutions across the country.

Projects funded at universities, agricultural colleges, the Agricultural Research Council, and government departments

Backed by the red meat levy and the Red Meat Research and Development Trust

A four-year levy cycle directs funding to the sector's research priorities

See the funding process
FOR RESEARCHERS

How funding works

Proposals are completed and submitted through the online system. Register first, then log in to apply.

01

Submit a proposal

Register and submit through the online system. You receive an email confirming receipt, with your proposal attached.

02

Committee review

The relevant Planning Committee reviews your proposal. The admin office tells you the outcome.

03

Contract

If accepted, RMRD SA contracts with you through your research institution and the project starts.

04

Annual funding

Funding is released yearly to your institution. You submit a progress report each year.

05

Final report

A final report and a popular article complete the project. Final payment follows once all requirements are met.

INSTITUTIONS WE FUND

Universities Agricultural colleges Department of Agriculture Provincial departments of agriculture

Across the sector

Cattle

Large stock

Beef cattle research and production

Sheep

Small Stock

Pigs

Pork Industry

Veld & grazing

Natural resources

Sustainable use of veld and grazing

News & Deadlines

Genomics

DATE TBA

Genomics guidance for researchers

Before submitting, check your proposed genomic analyses against existing research to avoid duplicating work that has already been done. All researchers are required to place relevant genomic data analyses on INTERGIS, the Integrated Registration and Genetic Information System, at intergis.agric.za.

Research Plan

DATE TBA

Cattle & small stock research programmes

RMRD SA's cattle and small stock research is organised into seven programmes, spanning sustainable use of natural resources, livestock production and forage, agricultural risk management, animal health and welfare, the production and processing of animal products, consumer and market development, and commercialisation of the emerging sector. The full research plan, built around these programmes, is available to download.
Key Dates

PROPOSALS

TBC

PROGRESS REPORTS

TBC

FINAL & COMPREHENSIVE REPORTS

TBC

COMMITTEE MEETING

CSS Planning - Project Committee - Pork Planning