AGRICULTURE NEWS - The number of participants in Grain SA’s Farmer Development Programme in the Eastern Cape is growing every year, with 3 581 smallholder grain producers in the province currently participating in the programme.
This was according to Sinelizwi Fakade, Grain SA provincial coordinator in the Eastern Cape.
Fakade said only 448 subsistence and smallholder farmers had been involved in the programme in 2015/2016.
“The increase in numbers are mainly ascribed to the positive results achieved by the [participants] and the impact these successes has had [on] unlocking the commercial potential of rural land usage in the Eastern Cape,” he said.
