AGRICULTURE NEWS - The Agri SA Disaster Relief Foundation has been established to relieve the plight of farmers and farmworkers as wildfires rage, drought conditions persist and a locust plague looms.
“This foundation ties in with Agri SA’s drought relief fund (started in 2016), but it allows us to help farmers and farmworkers struggling with other disasters as well,” Andrea Campher, Agri SA’s head of risk management, told Farmer’s Weekly.
The foundation was formed around the time of the civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal during July. “A need arose to issue article 18 certificates (for tax exemption) to donors, and this foundation allows us to do so,” Campher explained.
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