Food Security: Emerging Farmers are Part of the Solution.
To address food insecurity, a collaborative approach is needed, with everyone from farmers to industry stakeholders, and banks playing their individual roles in making this a success. Steps should be taken to ensure farmers – irrespective of the size of their farms are able to access nances, resources and technologies to farm competitively.
Fields Steps May-July 2023: Succession farming as a business and the farm as a home
Times are tough and with the current economic climate, heavy lifting is required to get many people out of poverty and hunger. For meaningful and impactful development decision-makers must purposeful and involved.
Fields Steps Jan – March 2023: Wet start to the summer planting season
We will kick-off 2023 will a mechanisation handover launch in Taung in the North West province.
Mechanisation is becoming increasingly important considering the rising demand for higher volumes of food to be produced within a limited timeframe and as efficiently as possible, driven by the growing population.
The Golden Rule: Develop with the changing times
Despite the challenges that farming may bring there is nothing else that 61-year-old farming mentor Barend “Barry” Nel would rather do than to be in the open air with muddied boots, working the soil. He believes that farming is in his genes, and he promises that he would never desert it, even if he was offered an office job in the City of Gold.
After more than 40 years’ experience in farming, Nel made it his mission to mentor farmers across the country for the sake of food security.
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To A Bright(er) 2022
We are fast approaching the end of another challenging year which was defined by the Covid-19 pandemic in all aspects of life and work. It would be an understatement to say, that most people are hoping for a better and brighter new year!
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Farmsol Celebrates 5 years!
It has been exactly 3 years as the Managing Director of FarmSol and during this time we have faced several challenges; from droughts, floods and the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we also had an opportunity to make a positive difference in peoples lives.
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Father-and-son no-till farming team builds for the future
Every Friday, we feature one of the rising farm stars participating in the FarmSol Youth Ambassador programme. This week, we travel to the Free State to meet Clifford Mtimkulu, who is continuing the legacy of his father.
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Covid-19: Agri working towards the ‘new normal’
As our country goes further into the third wave, the carnage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is becoming even more stark. Aron Kole, managing director of FarmSol, says that we need to adapt to “the new norm”
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Ntuli siblings united in buildings their farming business
Youth Month has come to an end but the need for young people in the agricultural sector remains great as ever. For Aron Kole managing director of FarmSol, developing young talent in the industry is of utmost importance.
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FarmSol is dedicated to helping young farmers thrive
Youth Month has come to an end but the need for young people in the agricultural sector remains great as ever. For Aron Kole managing director of FarmSol, developing young talent in the industry is of utmost importance.
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FarmSol Holdings
We’re a ‘South African Breweries Thrive Fund’ initiative and an agricultural services company focused on bringing sustainable solutions that link customers in the food and beverage sector with smallholder farmers.
