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VEGETABLES Sithembele Malgas, Idutywa, Eastern Cape I farm cabbage, spinach and butternut on rotation on a 3.5ha plot that I have subdivided into five sections. This means I can stagger production to continually supply my market, which consists mainly of chain stores in towns such as Idutywa and Butterworth, as well as the informal market […]
Vhutolo Khangale believes farming is the best way to fight poverty. He says easy-care, hardy and adaptable indigenous veld goats have tremendous economic value to offer, especially to Africa’s poorly resourced smallholder farmers. Vhutolo talks to Peter Mashala about the benefits of farming the Indigenous Veld Goat breed. In his early years Vhutolo Khangale spent […]
WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? The best advice was to stop terminal crossbreeding and stick to the Indigenous Veld Goat breed. To buy only quality and stay the course. IF THERE IS ONE THING YOU COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY, WHAT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN? I would have started earlier focusing […]
CATTLE Mojalefa Tlou, Waterval, North West Province We have not had any rain and are expecting our summer calves in the next few weeks. Our biggest challenge is the lack of grass because of the veld fires we have had in the past few weeks. We will need to supplement heavily and provide extra feed […]
The HandPicked agricultural skills development programme from Mr Price Foundation is using vertical crop production to create entrepreneurial opportunities for agricultural students and home growers. The foundation is seeing valuable early results from this corporate social investment programme, including growing more food, closer to markets. African Farming’s Robyn Joubert visited the project. In October 2020, […]
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by Kathy Mann I’ve been thinking about how we become so conditioned by other people’s expectations of who we are and who we ought to be. I attended university in Cape Town and I had to wait a year because my father didn’t want me to leave home. I wonder what the cost of that […]
Tell us a little about your team To work for Jacaranda Hub, one has to be passionate, agile, multifaceted, ambitious, and dynamic. We work in a very fast-paced environment and hence the levels of stress can be really high. The Jacaranda Hub team are very youthful and this makes it very conducive to the work […]
What are your future plans and aspirations for your company? Adona Foundation is due to release its first book on the 30th September. Product description – I Am Adona is an inspiring collection of stories by African women about what they view to be their countries greatest achievement in advancing women’s rights and empowerment. Edited by […]