By Akani Nkuna
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has highlighted the need for increased market access for small-scale farmers to ensure their long-term success, drive economic prosperity and food security.
“We need to focus on market accessing, and that is the whole thrust of agriculture and agro-processing master plan that is being adopted by the department as the blueprint going forward,” he said.
Steenhuisen was speaking during a panel discussion on safeguarding global agriculture and food security at South Africa House at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“The goal of the agriculture and agro-processing master plan is to move people from subsistence into smallholder [farming]. That can only happen through market access and value chain that is why we have adopted the round table model with agriculture and agro-processing master plan,” said Steenhuisen.
He emphasised that the Agriculture Department was trying to bridge the gap by bringing together the
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