Award-winning Bethal farmer achieves success through diversified business
Bethal farmer Dewald te Water shares his journey of building a successful diversified agriculture business through hard work, perseverance, and calculated risks.
Agricultural Writers SA National Farmer of the Year 2023, Dewald te Water, runs a diversified agriculture and construction business in Mpumalanga.
Te Water will never be unsure about the word that sums up his farming career. His every story and sentence is strewn with the word ‘opportunity’. And although he is quick to relate that while some prospects turn out to be challenges rather than opportunities, he never shies away from venturing along unknown paths.
Te Water’s drive is relentless and it has paid off handsomely. His career is a story of blood, sweat and tears, scraping every cent together to capitalise on what he and his brother Billy always saw as ‘an opportunity’.
Today, the Te Water Group (TWG) has a robust agriculture and construction company, which includes cattle, maize, soya bean, silage, brickmaking, and equipment rental divisions.
Read more about his humble beginnings and how Te Water added value to his business by taking calculated risks on Farmer’s Weekly.
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