Monsanto SA is dedication to inclusive growth and transforming South African agriculture by empowering communities and supporting agricultural education, they said in a recent press release. Monsanto launched the “imbewu” empowerment programme on August 4 and hopes to contribute to South Africa’s inclusive growth. Monsanto created the programme in 2016…
Two South African Ministers have called upon white farmers to lend a helping hand to emerging black farmers at a conference about transformation. Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries used the example of Bobby Godsell, CEO of AngloGold, who was a mentor to Patrice Motsepe, mine magnate and…
Emerging farmers’ access to financing should be combined with technical support, said the executive head of the Land Bank. Mr TP Nchocho, with the undersigning of a memorandum of an agreement (MoU) between the bank and Pick ’n Pay, said access to finances cannot solely be the main catalyst for…
South African smallholder farmers are unhappy about the slow pace of land reform and support to farmers and want to discuss these issues. The African Farmers’ Association of South Africa (AFASA) is the host for a conference on transformation in the agricultural sector from July 30 to August 1. The…
The recent communal NGWA road show in the Eastern Cape provided valuable information for farmers to enhance their wool farming practices, said the newly elected chairperson of the Communal Wool Growers Association, Lawrence Maduna. The National Wool Growers Association, in partnership with several role players in the wool industry, went…
Extension services in the region are failing farmers and a new approach is needed if the agricultural sector is to be transformed, said Dr Daimon Kambewa at the annual Southern African Conference for Agricultural Unions (SACAU), underway in Cape Town. “The old extension model was based on providing skills and…
Racial transformation in agriculture can’t simply be “window dressing.” This was the message by Pierre Vercueil, chairman of Agri North West, during the Young Farmers conference at Lichtenburg last week. Vercueil said transformation to deal with the inequalities caused by South Africa’s discriminatory past, offers opportunities for South African farmers,…
At least R2 billion (ZMK1,47 billion) had been spent to support emerging farmers in the past 22 years by the South African government, yet there was not much evidence of where and how this money had been spent. So say dr. Langa Simele of the African Farmers Assosciation of South…
