The MEC for Rural Development and Agrarian Reform Zoleka Capa cordially invites members of the media to the official handover of the first communal sheep breeding centre in the province to be held at Sinqumeni village in Engcobo.
Following an instruction from the MEC, the department has invested in developing fully-fledged breeding centres with the vision of helping communal farmers to help each other with the provision of quality livestock to assist in the livestock improvement.
The MEC believes that the department should develop breeding centres with the view of fast tracking the department efforts of improving livestock among the emerging farmers by providing them with quality Dohne Merino sheep and cattle.
To this end, the livestock improvement programme was only supported through the department’s Dohne Agricultural Development Institute and its satellite breeding stations but this initiative will ease the burden in these institutions.
At the Sinqumeni centre the department has built a dipping tank and fenced grazing lands and 9 hectors of land that is currently planted with quality sheep feed.
The MEC will also handover 100 Dohne Merino ewes and 60 Dohne Merino rams and this will help the farmers to produce the own quality rams, to be distributed to other farmers in the region and ultimately the Eastern Cape.
Details of the event:
Date: 14 May 2013
Venue: Sinqumeni village (Shearing shed), Engcobo
Time: 10h00
For more information contact :
Departmental Spokesperson
Ayabulela Ngoqo
Cell: 071 603 3235
Media Liaison Officer
Thozi Manyisana
Cell: 082 494 3600
