The MEC for Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs, Mr Andries Gamede is expected to meet with organised agriculture and the farming community in the Mkhondo Municipality, to look at a number of issues affecting their daily lives. Issues of farm evictions, the relationship between farmers and their workers and the mainstreaming of commercial farmers are some of the issues to be discussed at the meeting.
MEC Gamede is also expected to address challenges faced by small scale farmers in the area, including efforts to assist them through Masibuyele Emasimini’s Mechanisation Programme, which involves issues of implements and tractors. The meeting is a follow up to issues raised by local people in Mkhondo during the Imbizo that was held in July this year.
Media houses are invited to the meetings scheduled as follows:
VENUE : Anchors Inn Guest Lodge, 31F De Wet Street, Piet Ritief
DATE : 03 October 2014
TIME : 11H00
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013 766 6133/ 072 089 9556 or Bheki Nyathikazi at 013 766 6359/ 071 485 8634