Official opening and graduation of the Tyelerha Skills Training Centre and the College of Sustainable Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, invites members of the media to the opening and graduation ceremony at the St Marks Agricultural Skills Training Centre in the Eastern Cape on 26 October 2017.
The St Marks project is a two-year project that commenced on 1 October 2016 funded by the National Skills Fund and implemented by the College of Sustainable Agriculture (CSA). Learners were recruited from 16 villages around the Qamata Irrigation Scheme and are trained on how to become producers within an agriculture value chain.
The project entails the production of lucerne and cash crops value chain on an initial 200 ha of land allocated by the Arthur Mfebe Tribal Authority. The objective of the project is to equip learners with production skills and upon exit; the learners are expected to be Agri-preneurs in their own villages.
Details of the graduation:
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2017
Venue: Tyelerha Agricultural Skills Centre, St Marks
(R61 Liberation Route between Queenstown and Cofimvaba) Eastern Cape
Time: 08:00
To RSVP Please contact
Innocent Mhlanga
Cell: 0828191808
Email: InnocentM@daff.gov.za
