‘Planting season project’ aims to help most vulnerable in KZN
The KZN government's R100m injection into a sustainable farming project aims to create more than 700 sustainable jobs and feed more than 10,000 people
Poor female KwaZulu-Natal farmers, youth and disadvantaged groups are set to benefit from the provincial government's R100m injection into a sustainable farming project whose aim is to create more than 700 sustainable jobs and feed more than 10,000 people. The “planting season project” will be launched on October 23 in KwaMachi, near the town of Harding in the south of KwaZulu-Natal, by premier Willies Mchunu and MEC for agriculture and rural development Themba Mthembu. The department said 60% of the beneficiaries would be women and the rest would be co-operatives owned by the youth and other disadvantaged groups. Beneficiaries will be mentored by trained farmers and and other agricultural technicians, so that their projects will be sustainable over a long period of time and they will be able to derive income from selling the fruit and vegetables they will produce. Beneficiaries will be also given soft loans, seeds, fertiliser and machinery and their produce will be bought by govern...
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