AGRICULTURAL NEWS - The first stage of the expedition was undertaken across Australia last year.
According to a statement by McCormick, the XTractor expedition is a “docu-reality programme”, in which the tractors and their drivers are “participants in a journey to discover our planet”.
The South African stage will start in the Western Cape and the tractors will travel through the Cape Winelands, the Garden Route, the Karoo, the Drakensberg, Lesotho, Uysalong the KwaZulu-Natal coast, through Swaziland, the Mpumalanga Lowveld, and eventually finish in Pretoria.
During its 50-stage journey across South Africa, the XTractor expedition will stop to take part in humanitarian activities, including establishing an orchard and vegetable garden for a community in Limpopo’s Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality, and building a new soccer pitch for a high school in Gauteng’s Sedibeng West district.
