ISOLOMZI FEVER Friday, 20 February 2009, p. 3
Investors
visit
projects
Mnquma
in
Babaiwa Ndlanya
POTENTIAL
Investors joined
Accelerated
Shared Growth initiative of South Africa on the
(ASGISA)
in
two day thp
a
organisations
to
view
sugar beans project Their aim was to
assess whether the farmers are
achieving success
in
this project.
Three projects from the district were
visited. The
include Theko, This
Zingqayi
year.
Since
in
villages and
December maize
then, the
life, she said.
a
Banjwaludaka.
last
has
grown well and is to be harvested in May or June. One of the farmers, Nobejile
said that they
expecting
The Chairman of
Geaba project had changed
good yield
said that the
are
this
year.
buy seeds, they were not going
results. We have
Now
because
of
our
ASGISA Eastern Nkony
is confident that its three pronged strategy for sustainingthese
eni,
anywhere.
is
Cape Projects, DrArchie
lives for the better because before they used to plant maize but because of a shortage of money to their
Muquma
district planted 900
hectares of maize
food for our families. This
her husband,
Hutterworth
maize and
six
Gcaba, who owns four hectares with
projects is delivering the necessary
whose
this
targeted rural
communities,
are 300
lands
hectares
larger, and are consistently
project, we have a hope that we will
or
never struggle again, she said. She
looking
added that their maize crop had promised a good harvest this year. Gcaba added that the money they
yield as well as develop skills within
is being pay school fees for their sell maize and buy children. We
are
getting from the farming
used
to
at
initiatives to improve
these communities. One
goals
is
to
help
these
the
of our main
communities
improve their food security, Nkonyeni.
said