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Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza says they are still in talks with Eskom to protect the agriculture sector from load shedding.

Crops being irrigated on a farm

“Our hop industry is actually at 34 degrees south. That means it’s grown at a totally unique latitude. Everyone else grows between 40 and 45 degrees north or south. So nowhere else in the world do we grow at such unique latitude, which means we have short days and not cold winters we’re supposed to have. It’s a totally different environment. And according to the rest of the world, we were never supposed to grow hops here, but we did it,” says Plant manager Rob Roy SAB Lauren Steytler.

“Also, in job creation because a number of people who get employed all through the season, not just on the production cycle, looking after the plants, harvesting, removing alien vegetation where you need expansion. All of those jobs are important,” says Didiza.

 

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Mxm useless anc gvt in talks loadsheding start in 2008!

🙏 please it's really tough for us farmers to produce food

In the mean time millions lost every day!

Phakeng disgraceful.this voetsekanc gvmt should be protecting every citizen from loadshedding

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