AGRI-PARK DISTRICT: HARRY GWALA PROVINCE: KWAZULU-NATAL 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 South Africa ARC Umzimkhulu 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 Kokstad 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).