For this maize farmer education is the key to success
Every Friday, we introduce you to a different young farmer who has grown their enterprises with the help of the prestigious farmer development programme. This week, we travel to the Free State to meet Hudson Dhladhla, who is planting more maize and earning more money with FarmSol.
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Food security is our collective responsibility
The prediction by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that an additional 130 million could be pushed into chronic hunger during 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have come true. This is a call for farmers, Government and business to step up to their collective responsibility to ensure food security, says Aron Kole, managing director of FarmSol.
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This Free State farmer is creating his own opportunities
FarmSol Youth Ambassador and Free State farmer Mokete Johannes Mofokeng is making great strides through sheer tenacity. In celebration of Youth Mont, we feature some of the rising farm stars participating in the FarmSol Youth Ambassador programme. Every Friday, we will introduce you to a different young farmer who has grown their enterprises with the help of the prestigious farmer development programme.
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Mechanisation: Smallholders can have access to agritech
FarmSol partners with South African Breweries to support over 520 smallholder grain farmers across seven provinces in South Africa, of which 65 are female. Aron Kole, managing director of FarmSol, talks about obstacles to mechanisation and ways in which smallholder farmers can bridge these challenges.
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Nyambose brothers following in their father’s footsteps
It’s FarmSol Friday, good people of Mzansi! This week, we travel to the Free State to meet farming brothers Gift and Molefi Nyambose. They are participating in the FarmSol Youth Ambassador programme. Through the FarmSol farmer development programme, they have managing to take their farming enterprise to new levels
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Mbele expands maize production with FarmSol boost
In celebration of Youth Month, we feature some of the rising farm stars participating in the FarmSol Youth Ambassador programme. Every Friday, we will introduce you to a different young farmer who has grown their enterprises with the help of the prestigious farmer development programme. This week, we travel to the Free State to meet Benjamin Mbele.
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FarmSol celebrates increase in profitable farmers
As Mzansi braces itself for another possible ban on alcohol sales, FarmSol reports a rise in the number of profitable farmers on their books. The agricultural development organisation says their total pay-out increased from R16.5 million in 2019 to R19.5 million in 2020.
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FieldSteps: Pandemic drives millions into hunger
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic could push more than 130 million people worldwide into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Farmer support that makes a real difference
FarmSol partners with South African Breweries to support smallholder grain farmers across eight provinces in South Africa. Aron Kole, managing director of FarmSol, spoke to Glenneis Kriel about his company’s history and aims, as well as his personal journey in agriculture. Read more…
Converting productivity into profitability
Smallholder farmers are a growing force in the agricultural industry, despite lacking access to key and critical resources – as the demand for food demand is expected to double by 2050 when South African agriculture will have to provide food security for about 73 million people (according to WWF-SA).
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