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EMERGING FARMERS AND AGROPROCESSING 14/02/2020
EMERGING FARMERS AND AGROPROCESSING
14/02/2020
OUR MANDATE• Our mandate as ADA is to create, develop, transform and unlock
the Agribusiness potential and opportunities with within the
province. This will be achieved with the involvement of all relevant
stakeholders.
• Agro-processing is transforming products (processing raw
materials) that originate from agriculture, forestry and fisheries
• Value-added agriculture entails changing a raw agricultural
product into something new through packaging, processing,
cooling, drying, extracting or any other type of process that
differentiates the product from the original raw commodity
AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN (Agribusiness)Customer is KING!
CONSUMER (How & When do I get that?)
AGROPRENEUR (How do I produce that?
BEEF VALUE CHAIN
ADA PROGRAMMES
• Programme 2 - Comprehensive capacity building • 2368 individuals trained in agribusiness sector
• Programme 3 - Enterprise and value chain development • 71 black-owned enterprises supported (operational inputs
and planting; refurbishment and construction of dams pack houses, silos, processing facilities and dairy parlours; installation of agro processing equipment; boreholes and irrigation systems; supply of refrigerated trucks; market access, offtake agreements and infrastructure planning
• Programme 4 - Infrastructure development• 1603 jobs created
ADA PROGRAMMES
UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES USING SCIENCE
❑ Laboratories
❑ New product development
❑ Scientists to assist with harnessing indigenous knowledge
❑ Creating new values chains using the fourth industrial revolution
❑ Developing the personnel
❑ Development of locally adapted equipment
OPPORTUNITIES
(Phytomedicine)
❑ Cosmetic
– Aloe vera soap, juice, shampoo, shower gel
❑ Health
– Aloe juice
❑ Pharmaceutical application of indigenous plants and formulations
❑ Industrial applications
POSSIBILITIES
❑BBS Farms
– 100% black woman owned
– Based in Port Shepstone
– Fruit, Nut and Vegetable production and processing
– First black woman farmer to export Macadamia
Nuts to the United States, Europe and the Far East
– Currently mentors other farmers
– Exporter of the year
ADA AGRIPROCESSING PROJECTS
❑ Mthethwa Processing (Frutee Belliez)
– 100% Black women owned (Youth project)
– Vegetable processing
– Factory Shell procured
– Market has been secured
– Refrigerated truck has been procured
❑ Ma Ande Investments
– 100% black owned
– Based in Kokstad
– Produce and process Sour Milk (Maas)
ADA AGRIPROCESSING PROJECTS (continued)
❑ Natural Quencher – KZN Female Entrepreneur Awards 2019: Winner for Top
Processor and National 1st runner-up
❑ Ngimnyama Ngimuhle – Beauty and Skin Care Cosmetics
❑ Lisa Lona (Mthethwa Processing) t/a Frutee Belliez – KZN Female Entrepreneur
Awards 2018 – Winner for Top Entrepreneurs Processing and KZN MEC’s Special
Award – Youth – 1st Runner-up; 2018 Umyezane Awards 1st Runner Up Top Youth
Business
❑ Cappeny Estates – Agricultural Writers South Africa (Landbou and Farmer’s
Weekly): KZN Farmer of the year award October 2017 and National 1st Runner-up
❑ BBS Farm – Female Farmer Award 2013, KZN Female Farmer Exports 2015
❑ Elite Crop (Watch this space)
Success Stories (Award Winning and Turn around projects)
❑ Primary funding source is the Comprehensive Agricultural
Support Programme (CASP) and Equitable share from
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD)
❑ Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR)
❑ Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA)
❑ Other relevant stakeholders
❑ Financial and Non-Financial Support
ADA FUNDING SOURCES
❑ ADA Funding Application process
– Letter requesting assistance (i.e. farming enterprise or training)
– Business Plan
– Feasibility study
– Proof of ownership of land / long term lease
– Offtake agreements
– Financial Statements
– Declaration of previous or current assistance from any government institution
❑ i.e. 50:50 Contribution
❑ Funding Approval
ADA FUNDING APPLICATIONS PROCESS
❑The possibilities are many
❑ Indigenous plants are an opportunity
❑Technological Innovations
❑Every day presents an opportunity
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION continued
❑ Address
5 Cascades Crescent,
Cascades Office Park
Montrose
Pietermaritzburg
❑ Tel No: 033 347 8600
❑ Fax No: 033 347 8634
❑ Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
❑ Mandla Hlela [email protected]
❑ Carol Siyakwazi [email protected]
❑ Xolani Qwabe [email protected]
Office Hours: 08h00 to 16h30 (Monday – Thursday)
Office Hours: 08h00 to 16h00 (Friday)
CONTACT DETAILS
SIYABONGA
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