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Young farmers from Mbizana in the Eastern Cape have called on the government and the private sector to invest in farming as a way of eradicating unemployment and poverty in the area.

Unemployment is rife while Alfred Nzo district in the Eastern Cape has been identified as the poorest in the country.

Farming is one of the industries with the potential to end poverty and unemployment. Now scores of young people have taken interest in Agriculture vegetable farming is popular in Mbizana. More established farmers assist young farmers but they believe more could be done.“If the government can assist us in terms of funding for us to grow the business of farming in Mbizana and have commercial farmers one day we need assistance from the government.

Other farmers Nandipha Sodwele and Mbizana Vegetables Growers chairperson Nolitha Msuthi say water and fencing are some of the biggest challenges. While funding and farming implements are still lacking to utilise this land. “We have land, sometimes five hectares but you’ll find that we don’t have implements to work. We can’t even get inputs, even when the ones from the government are only received by a small number of farmers. We need to get training. we used basically because we grow up farming, we can appreciate training like business management financial how to record so that we can grow,”

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