Free workshop – Balimi: Practical solutions for farmers
Seats are limited and lunch will be served.
JOHANNESBURG – TechnoServe SA is offering a free workshop, Balimi: Practical Solutions for farmers, to train Gauteng farmers on how to improve farm productivity, boost their income and contribute to their local economies by growing their farms as businesses.
This workshop will address operational challenges faced by farmers and present solutions to common problems, including access to finance, market access and technical assistance on good farming practices through mentorship and business systems development.
The Balimi workshops:
Tuesday February 17 – The Forum Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg, from 09:00 to midday.
Thursday February 19 – The Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria, from 09:00 to midday.
Seats are limited and lunch will be served, so to reserve your place or for more information, call 011 482 6335 or email mmanaswe@tns.org
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms and businesses. A nonprofit organisation that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets, TechnoServe’s work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities.
In South Africa, TechnoServe works in six provinces and has trained over 2 000 farmers, creating jobs for 4 400 people and generating incomes of over R30 million.
TechnoServe seeks to promote the growth of small-scale farmers through programmes that provide expert advice and technical and business capacity building and that open up markets for farmers’ produce and link them to finance, thereby building competitive small-scale farms. In this way, it has a vision of a better way to integrate rural areas into the rest of the country by improving farmer infrastructure and skills, thereby creating jobs and minimising poverty.
