Smallholder Farmer Support Programme in Labour Sending Areas
Sector: Agricultural, on-the job training in labour sending areasIntroduction
The SDET and SDCT are jointly supporting the programme which forms part of a country-wide Jobs Fund Smallholder Framer Support Programme. The four-year programme is being implemented by LiMA Rural Development Foundation in 16 sites (Local Municipalities) across 5 provinces, aiming to create a total of 4700 new permanent jobs and 80 new short term jobs. Supporting this programme also ensured leveraging Jobs Fund funding through the matched funding the trusts and other funding partners provided.
The trusts chose three sites based on current and historic South Deep staffing numbers from the various labour areas. The three sites being supported are in Nongoma, Umzimvubu and Lephalale and found in the impoverished Provinces of Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Limpopo as depicted below.
Jobs Fund/LiMA Smallholder Farmer Support Programme Sites
The developmental impacts of the programme include job creation, increase and improvement in smallholder farmer production, development of the entire agricultural value chain, development of long term sustainable market entry for smallholder farmers, systematic sector change, introduction of innovative technologies and support methods and testing of new business models. It creates a direct linkage between South African retailers and smallholder farmers, and tests a business model which can be replicated beyond the programme and in new areas.
The programme includes:
Training
Agri-hubs
Credit System
Farmer Graduation

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