The KZN Department of Agriculture and Rural Development released an agricultural Master Plan that will serve as a roadmap to unlock socio-economic development in the sector through specific strategic programmes. These programmes should bring about a revolution leading to real transformation in the sector and be able to address the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality that affects mainly youth, women and disabled people.
The Provincial Agricultural Summit 2018, was held in Pietermaritzburg on 15-16 November 2018.
Speech delivered by MEC Themba Mthembu