AGRICULTURE NEWS - Almost a third of South Africa’s population lives in remote rural areas on communal, subsistence agricultural land.
Communal land areas largely constitute what was the former homelands prior to 1994.
According to Prof Phillippe Burger, vice-chancellor and professor of economics at the University of the Free State, it was vital that measures be put in place to commercialise communal farming in the quest to alleviate poverty and create economic opportunities.
That was why securing tenure rights for these farmers were so important.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
