FIRST TEA RESTAURANT WITHIN A TEA ESTATE LAUNCHED AT SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S LARGEST TEA ESTATE
The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) on Monday launched the first tea restaurant in a tea estate at the southern hemisphere’s largest tea estate, Magwa Enterprise Tea in Lusikisiki. The launch of the tea restaurant forms part of the ECRDA board’s plans to...
NEW BOARD ANNOUNCED FOR SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S LARGEST TEA ESTATE
The largest tea estate in the Southern Hemisphere, Magwa Enterprise Tea (MET) which was until recently led by an interim Board, has announced the appointment of a Board of Directors for a three-year period with effect from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2024. Located in the...
EASTERN CAPE RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SETS ASIDE R11 MILLION IN 2021/22 TO TRANSFORM ITS RURAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMNENT HUBS INTO AGGREGATION CENTRES
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
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
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
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
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
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...
MULTIMILLION RAND BOOST TO IMPROVE EMERGING AND SUBSISTENCE FARMER LIVESTOCK QUALITY
Moves to improve the quality and marketability of emerging and subsistence farmer livestock in the Eastern Cape is starting to take a different turn with the establishment of three feedlots in the Transkei with the Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) having...
ECRDA APPROVES R14,8 MILLION IN LOANS FOR DISBURSEMENT TO RURAL ENTREPRENEURS IN 2015/16
The Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) says it approved a total of R14,8 million in loans to rural entrepreneurs in the 2015/16 financial year.Actual disbursements amounted to R12,5 million while R11,8 million of this amount were ECRDA agricultural loans...
