SA Graan Junie 2016

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• B. Sc. Agric. (Landbou-Ekonomie)
• B. Agric. (Landbou-Ekonomie)
• B. Agric. (Landboubestuur)
• Eenheid in Lewendehawe Ekonomie
• Internasionale Vennote
Universiteit van die Vrystaat
Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe
Departement Landbou-Ekonomie
T: 051 - 401 2250 | 051 -
donation of 22 tons. 2 tons of maize meal
was delivered to the Lethoteng Learning
centre in Clocolan to feed 150 children.
This will provide them with a daily meal for
40 weeks.
Financial assistance rendered by Agri SA
and products produced by local produc-
ers’ associations enabled Agri Northern
Cape to address the nutritional needs of
farm children residing in school hostels
in Brits which burnt down recently and in
Middelpos where children do not always
have enough food.
A project launched by the Bearing Man
Group and its agricultural manager,
Mr Carlo Beukes, encouraged the public
by means of notices which were put up in
all BMG outlets, to donate non-perishable
foods. The first handover of food will take
place in Bultfontein in the near future.
With the help of Pick n Pay, the Agri Hope
Grass project and the Sage Foundation,
150 000 litres of water were handed over to
communities where water shortages were
severe. The Agri SA Grass Hope Project
also visited the Kwarriekraal community in
the North West Province to provide feed to
livestock.
This was complemented by a donation of
dried fruit to the community by the PWC
group.
A donation of 8 tons of maize meal by
maize producer Mr Douw Steyn from
Standerton was handed over to needy
farming communities in the North West
Province. A local school community of
Ongopotse Tiro School in Mafikeng was
one of the beneficiaries.
Residents of the Goedverwacht Moravian
Mission in the Western Cape were also very
grateful for the water which was delivered
by Pick n Pay.
Severe dry conditions are experienced in
this part of the Western Cape and a constant
supply of clean water is a major challenge.
Let’s continue to support the drought fund
at and sustain
our producers and farm workers. They are
a strategic economic asset which we must
nurture and empower.