The agriculture master plan failed its first test of getting the support of all industry stakeholders
In 2015, the department of agriculture launched a programme to develop 300,000 new small-scale farmers and create 145,000 agro-processing jobs by 2019.
This is just one example of the many farmer support and development plans initiated by the government over the last two decades in which billions of rand went down the drain. The proof of these failures can be seen in the low levels of participation by black farmers in the commercial agriculture value chain.
Labour representatives also did not support the plan because the document did not provide a detailed way forward to address the needs of farm workers, such as the provision of housing and other basic services. Apart from the routine nod these issues get from presidents in their state of the nation addresses every year, land reform and transformation in the agriculture sector usually don’t feature high on the government’s agenda, except at election time.
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