AGRICULTURE NEWS - “In addition, municipalities in the province own 203 plots of vacant land that amount to 245 379ha, which means a total of 677 417ha of potentially productive land is lying dormant.”
The Free State was but a case study of what was happening in the rest of the country, he said. It could be safely assumed that this trend of failure was continuing in all of the other provinces, except in the Western Cape.
Jankielsohn told Farmer’s Weekly that it seemed as if government was oblivious to the threat it posed to food security in the country. Expropriation remained a smokescreen for the state’s failure over 30 years to transform the commercial agricultural landscape, he said.
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