putting hands in the soil at the Riverside Food garden Project, in
Khayelitsha
20 November 2006
The national Minister of Agriculture, Ms Lulu Xingwana, announced the
"Ilima/Letsema" campaign on 4 November 2006, and said the following:
"To the men and women in our rural areas, those in communal areas, in our
peri-urban areas, those with land next to the cities, let no land lie fallow!
Go back to the land and unleash this productive asset to feed our families and
communities, create employment and contribute towards economic growth and
development of local and rural economies.
We will, through this campaign, build on and leverage programmes already
existing in the provinces, programmes that offer support to small scale farming
in the form of fencing, seeds, fertilisers, extension support, and irrigation
as an example. We will have Ilima/Letsema in all provinces during November.
To the young people of our country also, we say to them they must roll up
their sleeves and go to the fields. We say to them agriculture is cool!"
In reaction to the national Minister's call to become actively involved in
her campaign for November ("we are going back to the fields to plough"), on
Monday, 20 November (09h30 to 12h00), Minister Cobus Dowry and the management
team of the Department of Agriculture in the Western Cape will be putting hands
in the soil at the Riverside Food garden Project in Khayelitsha.
We want to invite all media people to come and witness this event and become
part of the drive towards the establishment of a well organised Food Security
System throughout the Western Cape.
The Riverside Project is just off Spine Road.
Enquiries:
Alie van Jaarsveld
Tel: (021) 483 4930
Fax: (021) 483 3890
Cell: 084 604 6701
E-mail: avjaarsv@pgwc.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Agriculture, Western Cape Provincial
Government
19 November 2006
