Livestock SMEs want access to retailers

Livestock SMEs want access to retailers

A R35 million investment from the North West agriculture and rural development department has sparked renewed energy among black-owned agricultural SMEs. The funding aims to overhaul the structural barriers that keep rural farmers out of national beef value chain. It forms part of what MEC Madoda Sambatha calls a “deliberate transformation push”, where emerging black livestock farmers are not just included but prioritised. “We are not giving out…