Witteklip MPC - what's next?

Great things scheduled for 2015...

Early Childhood Development Centre and Agricultural Centre of Excellence. We plan to have open-field cropping next to the MPC that will act as a catalyst to stimulate agriclutural activities in the area. We also plan to "connect" our communities to facilitate a broader perspective of the world.

1. OBJECTIVE
• Encourage our Communities to make money
• Training
• Production
• Enterprise Incubation/SMME/Co-operative Development
2. LEARNERS
• Create an environment conducive to experiential learning and creating opportunities to develop entrepreneurs
• Provide land, seeds and infrastructure to enable the new learners to flourish in a safe and controlled environment
3. PRODUCTION | 
• Stabilise and ensure consistent production
4. SALES & MARKETING
• Develop mature, consistent off-take agreements and develop predictable channels to market
5. COMMERCIALISATION
• Secure 3rd Party Funding to assist current workers and new intake of learners. Expand the Cooperatives and develop SMME’s
6. FUNDING
• Approach Total Foundation, Anglo Zimele, NYDA, NDA
7. BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
• Grow commercial scale farmers

HOPEWELL RADEBE, BUSINESS DAY, 2011/08/31

Addressing the Transvaal Agriculture Union of SA (TAU-SA) congress at the CSIR conference centre, Dr Mulder said it would be a challenge to come to an agreement with the government on how much land would be appropriate for commercial farmers, especially since many black farmers were beginning to grow from subsistence farming to fully fledged commercial farmers. He said SA’s agricultural food production was currently in the hands of only 15% of the very large scale commercial farmers who supply 80% South Africa’s food.

IN SUMMARY | Our Future Farmers are consistently and systematically excluded from main-stream agricultural distribution. It is based on this research that in order to ensure true Local Economic Development, returns have to circulate within the Community.

The case for an alternate Distribution Channel, Local Supermarket and Community Bank starts becoming very plausible