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Agri News Podcast: Fifty households receive title deeds from President

───   12:46 Tue, 26 Mar 2019

Agri News Podcast: Fifty households receive title deeds from President | News Article

President Cyril Ramaphosa has handed over title deeds to community members in the Western Cape.


Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Khusela Diko, says 50 households of Ebenhaeser and Beeswater were thankful to receive the deeds. She says the handover, under the theme Restoring Dignity Through Land Reform, forms part of government’s land reform programme and took place on Saturday. Diko says title deeds for about 4 000 hectares of 178 Vanrhynsdorp Beeswater commercial farmland were handed over. The president was accompanied by the Minister of Rural development and Land Reform, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

The Crop Estimates Committee is expected to release its second production estimates for summer crops on Tuesday. Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist at the Agriculture Business Chamber, Agbiz, says a downward revision in the maize and sunflower seed production estimate is expected. 

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The Southern Africa Agri Initiative, Saai, is encouraging South African organisations, businesses and organised agriculture to support farmers and other role-players in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The CEO, Francois Rossouw, says farmers in these countries need all the support they can get after they were severely affected by the recent Cyclone Idai.



OFM News/Michael Tlhakudi

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