AGRI-PARK DISTRICT: HARRY GWALA PROVINCE: KWAZULU- REPORTING DATE: MARCH 2016

KEY COMMODITIES AGRIPARK COMPONENTS STATUS

 Vegetables (cabbage, carrots,  4 FPSUs to be located in: Highflats, Ndawana, Ebutha Farm and Kwa  DAMC established potatoes, tomatoes, onions) Sani LM  The first, second and final drafts of the Master Business Plan  Soybean  1 Agri-Hub to be located at Ebutha Farm have been submitted.  Maize KEY CATALYTIC PROJECTS AGRO-PROCESSING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES KEY ROLE-PLAYERS

 Vegetables: investment in the Highflats  Vegetables. Cabbage: juicing, slicing and dicing for slaw. Carrots: Public Sector Industry Other vegetable packhouse into a Value Add washing, sorting, fresh packing, branding, freezing, juicing, slicing  KZN DARD  Agricultural Producers Agents  FNB/ Standard Centre will further develop its capacity and dicing. Potatoes: washing, sorting, fresh packing, branding,  KZN DRDLR Council (APAC) Bank Agriculture/ to process vegetables, create a market slicing, dicing, drying, baking, powdering and canning. Tomatoes:  Harry Gwala DM  South African Feedlot Association Absa  Harry Gwala  Perishable Export Control Board Agribusiness for smallholder primary producers in the storage, ripening, washing, sorting, fresh packing, branding, freezing, Development  Fresh Produce Exporters Forum  Land Bank district and provide an opportunity for slicing, dicing, cooking, drying, canning, bottling and preserving. Agency  Milk Producers’ Organisation  SEDA private sector investment and Onions: canning, dehydrating, storage, ripening, washing, sorting,  Ubuhlebezwe LM (MPO)  DBSA partnering fresh packing, branding, preserving. Other vegetables: canning,  Kwa Sani LM  Forestry  ARC  LM  Hlangani Farmers Association  Soybean: investment in primary slicing, dicing, extraction, drying and juicing  Ingwe LM  Highflats Farmers Association production is required to provide  Soybean: phospho-lipids, cooking oil, chemical products and  Greater  Lourdes Wool Growers sufficient throughput to a soybean industrial food products extracted from the oil; animal feed LM Association  KZN CoGTA  Ubuhlebezwe Emerging Farmers processing mill to make it a viable and extracted from the oilcake, high quality animal feed produced from  DAFF  Ingwe Farmers Association sustainable operation full fat soya and industrial uses for soybean meal  Ingonyama Trust  Umzimkhulu Forest Growers  Maize: investment in primary production  Maize: milling and maize meal, packaged popcorn, popped maize tribal authority  Underberg Farmers Association is required to provide sufficient cakes, reconstructed maize chips, starch, corn steep liquor, glucose,  Amakhosi  Merensky Timber throughput to a maize processing mill to glucose-fructose syrup, fermented beverages, ethanol and animal make it a viable and sustainable feed operation

NEXT STEPS INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS POSSIBLE ECONOMIC BENEFIT

 Farming equipment and mechanisation  Establish governing committees  Potential to create approximately 1400 to 5500 employment  Cleaning, weighing, sorting, grading,  Develop a funding model opportunities though the development of the Agri-Park. and packing machines  Commence technical planning of physical construction, related  Smallholder farmers will gain access to the value chain and  Local pack house infrastructure, clustering of production areas will be the direct beneficiaries of primary production support  Processing, sorting, storage, agro-  Identify small-holder and emergent farmers activities. Of the employment opportunities, approximately processing, packaging, warehousing,  Develop detailed business plans for all Agri-Park components 850 – 4250 will be on-farm opportunities for smallholder cold-storage, transport and logistics  Source funding from key public/private stakeholders farmers. facilities  Commence construction on all Agri-Park components  Approximately 600 – 1300 employment opportunities are  Administrative, office, rental, quality  Begin production of selected commodities estimated to be created upstream (FPSU) and downstream control and retail facilities  Identify the employment needs for each component and advertise (AH) of primary production activities.  Training centre these positions  Currently over 4 100ha of production is supported by various  Agricultural input distribution and sales  Rollout the training programmes government departments with potential for approximately centre  Commence agro-Processing 6 800ha to be put under additional production between the  Water and irrigation systems  Market the products and leverage key stakeholders to enable 3 priority commodities (approximately 4 000ha for maize,  Greenhouses market penetration 1 600ha for soybean and 1 000 ha for vegetables).