AGRIGULTURAL NEWS - A farmer-led committee in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District in the Free State has pledged to ensure that seven new Case tractors handed over by government to local developing farmers on March 23 would be utilised effectively.
Chairperson of the District Agri-parks Management Committee (DAMC), Shadrack Mbele, said they were thrilled to take custody of the “beautiful, strong tractors”.
These would form the basis of the Maluti-a-Phofung Farmer Production Support Unit (FPSU), the first of several such units being established by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR).
According to Mbele, a potato packhouse erected by the DRDLR had been repurposed for housing the equipment.
