The South African Farmers Development Association (Safda) this week welcomed the extension of a sugar industry funding programme for small-scale and black growers but said floods and other problems meant the R239m was not enough.

Over the past five years, the South African Sugar Association (Sasa), a statutory body representing cane growers and millers, has channelled a total of about R1bn into funding small-scale farmers as part of the first phase of the sugar master plan that was launched in 2019...

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