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[File photo:] Farm workers tending to crops.
The North West Department of Agriculture has made R23 million available to support grain farmers in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District, as the planting season kicks off.
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This will benefit 50 farmers across who farm a total of 2700 hectares and form part of government’s crop massification initiative that targets fallow land in communal areas.
“We’re also here because the cooperative has not collapsed, which then gives us another story about cooperatives, because we are under siege with people giving us stories of collapsed cooperatives. Like here, it’s a cooperative of a land reform farm. There’s no collapse,” says MEC of Agriculture, Madoda Sambatha.
He says that as they come, there’s also a land development support that the department has done for this cooperative.
“The purpose is to have an awareness of the starting of the cropping season. Everyone else in our province must remember, if you are a farmer, go and ensure that you start planting,” adds Sambatha.
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