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CropLife SA Crop Protection and Biotech Article Award

Members are annually invited to submit articles for the CropLife SA Crop Protection Article Award and the CropLife SA Biotech Article Award. In each of these competitions, winners are awarded R10 000!

The CropLife SA Crop Protection Article Award focuses on articles pertaining to any aspect of crop protection to stand a chance to win R10 000 from CropLife South Africa. In terms of the CropLife SA Biotech Article Award the same prize money is up for grabs for articles in terms of any aspect of biotechnology.

Articles entered in this competition are evaluated and judged in terms of relevance, technical accuracy, comprehensibility and percentage of the article dedicated to crop protection or biotech.

More information and entry forms:

Crop protection article

Plant Biotech article

Crop protection article winners

  • 2019 – Lloyd Phillips
  • 2020 – Gerrit Bezuidenhout
  • 2021 – Elise-Marie Steenkamp
  • 2022 – Magda du Toit
  • 2023 – Magda du Toit
  • 2024 – Glenneis Kriel
  • 2025 – Glenneis Kriel

Biotechnology article winners

  • 2021 – Lindi Botha
  • 2022 – Mariana Purnell
  • 2023 – Engela Duvenhage
  • 2024 – Mariana Purnell