The fourth annual Agri’s Got Talent song contest was introduced by the fruit industry body Hortgro, in collaboration with the VinPro foundation and the Western Cape Department of Agriculture. It is aimed at giving agricultural workers with musical talent an opportunity to rise above their everyday work.

The entries are open to workers in specific fruit industries. These are the apple, pear, plum, peach, nectarine, apricots, wine grapes, pomegranate, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, dried fruit, honeybush tea, table grapes, fynbos or the olive industry.

Other criteria are that the entrant must have an ability to sing, be 18 years or older, must have worked on a farm, in a packing house or in a cellar for at least three consecutive months in the past 12 months.

Entrants need to send a video or voice note via WhatsApp by the closing date on May 15. 

Further information is also available online at agrisgottalent.com.

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