REPURPOSING AGRICULTURE

A program for Women Survivors of gender based violence

Creating jobs and industrial scale facilities to benefit women

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PROJECT PROPONENTS

Namakwaland Sitrus & Vegetable Enterprises, a hugely successful commercial farm that seeks to repurpose existing resources to address the challenges facing current day South Africa.  Has leased land to the project and is presently managed by a successful farmer, Tobias Basson

Namakwaland Sitrus & Vegetable Enterprises, a hugely successful commercial farm that seeks to repurpose existing resources to address the challenges facing current day South Africa.  Has leased land to the project and is presently managed by a successful farmer, Tobias Basson

Ruben Richards Foundation is a non-profit organisation that provides a range of services to vulnerable people in society, including restoration of families, empowering women and communities through job creation and local economic development initiatives

1000 Women Voice is a registered trust founded primarily to serves and advocacy group that creates awareness of GBV and to empower communities to support survivors.  1000 Women, in partnership with Pick ‘n Pay Foundation seeks to empower and restore dignity to women, survivors of GBV through various initiatives

EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Farm was purchased by Namakwaland Sitrus in 2016.

  • Size of land – 224 ha with access to additional land.

  • Farm is licensed for 503 650 cubic meters of water per year which we utilise for 90ha of irrigation farming

  • Farm also has 40 ha of rooibos tea

  • Historical primary production unit/crop was sweetcorn, watermelon, gem squash cabbage, sweet potato, cauliflower, broccoli.

  • A lease agreement has been signed by the owners and 1000 Women Farm

PRODUCTS & MARKETS

  • 80% of products will be sold into two large retailers and then on sold on to middle to high LSM customers. 

 

  • Products are packed for convenience and sold through off take agreements with Pick n Pay and Freshmark, the latter a brand of the Shoprite Group


  • 20% of produce will be sold on the local municipal market in the surrounding areas supplying the smaller shops and informal market.


“As for the sustainability of the project, we will use three ways to support it namely primary agriculture, processing/packaging and the creation of a renewable energy (solar) plant. 1000 Women Farm also negotiated an offtake with Pick ‘n Pay for their products. It was important to find a market for our product. A solar farm will be built to generate 100 megawatt – power that we could sell to potential clients such as the metropole of Cape Town. The shortage of electricity for the national grid makes this a viable venture” said Basson.

CONTACT US

We’d love to hear from you. Call us now at 073 207 9079 or send a message using the form below we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.