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EASTERN CAPE RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SETS ASIDE R11 MILLION IN 2021/22 TO TRANSFORM ITS RURAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMNENT HUBS INTO AGGREGATION CENTRES

Jul 7, 2021

The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) has set aside R11 million in the 2021/22 financial year which is aimed at transforming its four grain-producing Rural Enterprise Development (Red) Hubs into aggregation centres. This means the Red Hubs located in...

EIGHT-YEAR TRADE AGREEMENT WITH SPAR EASTERN CAPE ANTICIPATED TO GENERATE OVER R30 MILLION IN ANNUAL SALES REVENUE FOR RURAL FARMERS

Dec 21, 2019

Maize meal produced by rural farmers at the Mqanduli Rural Enterprise Development Hub (RED HUB) milling plant outside Mthatha has hit the Spar Group stores in the Eastern Cape in an eight-year trade support package anticipated to grow sales revenue to in excess of R30...

RURAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCIER ISSUES 140 AGRICULTURAL LOANS IN 2018/19

Dec 10, 2019

The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) says a total of 140 agricultural and non-agricultural loans worth R4,7 million were disbursed to rural entrepreneurs across six Eastern Cape regions in the 2018/19 financial year. Announcing the agency’s 2018/19 annual...

COMMERICAL STUD BREEDERS LEND A FREE HELPING HAND TO EMERGING LIVESTOCK FARMERS

Aug 7, 2018

A group of stud breeders from Grahamstown, Alexandria and Southwell, Frontier Bonsmara have taken the bull by the horn and they are actively training about 30 emerging farmers from the Ngqushwa municipal area to become commercial livestock farmers – for free. The stud...

FIRST OF ITS KIND RENEWABLE ENERGY PILOT FOR FORT BEAUFORT VILLAGE

Jun 18, 2018

A village of 67 households at Upper Blinkwater outside Fort Beaufort not due to receive Eskom power in the next 10 years is the beneficiary of a first of its kind mini grid renewable energy system pilot project which should be functional by the end of the year. The...

35KWT RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM ROLL-OUT AT FOUR RURAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT HUBS

Jun 14, 2018

The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) says it has spent R2,4 million in the first phase of a renewable energy system at its Rural Enterprise Development (RED) hubs in order to reduce production costs at the four sites.A further R10 million is required to...