AGRICULTURE NEWS - Marilyn Siegels ventured into farming in 2017 after leaving the corporate sector, where she worked as a medical representative for Nestlé.
Despite little exposure to farming, she committed herself to the family business, for which her father had sacrificed a great deal.
According to Siegels, acquiring Protea Farm, which trades under the auspices of the Nitaflo company and is situated in the Elgin Valley, was no easy task.
“It took my father [Edward van Niekerk] almost seven years to finally receive the farm from the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform through the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS) system,” she explains.
Read the full story here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly.
