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)
POSSIBILITIES ❑ Cosmetic – Aloe vera soap, juice, shampoo, shower gel ❑ Health – Aloe juice ❑ Pharmaceutical application of indigenous plants and formulations ❑ Industrial applications
ADA AGRIPROCESSING PROJECTS ❑ 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 (continued) ❑ 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)
Success Stories (Award Winning and Turn around projects) ❑ Natural Quencher – KZN Female Entrepreneur Awards 2019: Winner for Top Processor and National 1 st 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 – 1 st Runner-up; 2018 Umyezane Awards 1 st 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 1 st Runner-up ❑ BBS Farm – Female Farmer Award 2013, KZN Female Farmer Exports 2015 ❑ Elite Crop (Watch this space)
ADA FUNDING SOURCES ❑ 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 APPLICATIONS PROCESS ❑ 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
CONCLUSION ❑ The possibilities are many ❑ Indigenous plants are an opportunity ❑ Technological Innovations ❑ Every day presents an opportunity
CONCLUSION continued
CONTACT DETAILS ❑ Address 5 Cascades Crescent, Cascades Office Park Montrose Pietermaritzburg ❑ Tel No: 033 347 8600 ❑ Fax No: 033 347 8634 ❑ Email: govenderp@ada-kzn.co.za / busdevapplications@ada-kzn.co.za ❑ Mandla Hlela HlelaM@ada-kzn.co.za ❑ Carol Siyakwazi Siyakwazic@ada-kzn.co.za ❑ Xolani Qwabe QwabeX@ada-kzn.co.za Office Hours: 08h00 to 16h30 (Monday – Thursday) Office Hours: 08h00 to 16h00 (Friday)
THE END SIYABONGA
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