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Govt's agriculture plan to create over 70,000 new jobs
According to the document, 6,500 new SMMEs will be created in the sector, there will be an additional 71,487 jobs, and animal production is set to expand by 611...
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza signed what's been touted as a 'master plan' on Thursday which sets out to increase investment in farming.
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said that a committee had been set up in KwaZulu-Natal to look at immediate interventions for farmers after the floods.
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said the country has been currently battling at least 56 foot-and-mouth outbreaks.
Foot-and-mouth disease is affecting farms and communal areas in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, the North West and Gauteng.
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza on Monday announced interventions to support subsistence farmers through the Presidential Employment Stimulus initiative.
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said that more than 75 people - mainly women whose production was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic - would benefit from the programme.
The demonstrators handed over a memorandum. They also wanted to meet with Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza.
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza, said in the next two weeks, government would issue advertisement notices of 896 farms totalling 700,000 hectares of under-utilised or vacant state land.
The minister held a virtual dialogue on Monday with women in the sector who raised many issues centering around the lack of land.
Government has set aside R1.2 billion for farmers struggling amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Speaking at a briefing in Pretoria on Monday, the Agriculture Minister announced interventions in the agricultural sector to ensure continued food production during the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond.
Following the coronavirus lockdown in South Africa, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza announced plans to assist the agriculture industry to ensure continued food production.
From Friday morning, the country will go into a 21-day lockdown as government tries to curb the spread of COVD-19, which has killed almost 20,000 people around the world.
In December, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza submitted a plan on the redevelopment of District Six to the Land Claims Court for residents who lodged claims between 1994 and 1998.
Cabinet has rejected a recommendation to form a land reform fund to assist with the expropriation of land without expropriation.
In recent weeks, land and sugar cane fields belonging to the Mathulini Communal Property Association were set alight resulting in damage estimated at around R3 million.
The minister met with her Gauteng, North West Mpumalanga counterparts on Saturday to address the status of the situation.
Last week, the Land Claims Court found former Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane didn’t comply with a court order to come up with a proper plan for restitution, shifting that responsibility to her successor.