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Farmers in parts of the Free State say they are facing a challenging period, with major losses of their wheat yield as a result of heavy rains.

File image: Workers collect rooibos tea seedlings for replanting at a farm near Vanrhynsdorp, South Africa, June 30, 2021.

Free State Agriculture says the northern, eastern and western parts of the province are affected.Maize, beans and sunflower planting has been delayed and the wheat harvest is impossible.“There’s a couple of farmers whose whole crop is dismantled and it’s too late now to get back in the land to plant again. So the crisis there is these farmers have spent a lot of money with input costs they are going to get nothing in investment in their input costs.

The scheme by the Department of Agriculture gives vouchers to emerging farmers to buy material they need for farming from identified suppliers. The programme is aimed at increasing employment in the agricultural sector.Emerging farmers in Thabine, outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, are complaining about the initiative. One of the farmers says the suppliers that are listed as service providers for the Pesi do not have farming material required by farmers.

The farmer says sometimes farmers spend the vouchers on items they do not need as suppliers do not always have the required stock. “Specific suppliers that we need to claim our products from, all the products that we need are not in the list of the suppliers that we have been given. So it ends up not serving a purpose because at the end of the day we don’t get the products that we need but then we have the amount of money that we have. It means that you will just take anything that is in the shop and that is not going to serve you and the process of farming.

 

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