![]() ![]() ![]() At small-scale level, it was found that farmers lacked skills in a host of areas: farm management and entrepreneurship, resource management and record-keeping, financial planning and management, marketing, processing and packaging, transport, natural resources management, and mechanical and electrical knowledge. It has collapsed firstly because people are disconnected from the land, and secondly because agriculture at school level has dissipated.”Īn analysis performed by the Agricultural-Sector Education Training Authority (Agri-SETA) in 2010 identified a range of scarce skills in agriculture. ![]() “Farmers have to be nurtured through an incubator system and that system has collapsed for society as a whole. We’re not pushing through the numbers, nor are we getting the quality right,” says Mohammad Karaan, dean of Stellenbosch University’s agri-sciences faculty. In addition, colleges and universities are producing under-experienced job candidates, while a lack of training among unskilled and semi-skilled workers is preventing the sector from building from the bottom up. South Africa’s agricultural education sector is failing to produce a new wave of farmers and agriculturalists, with fewer youngsters being drawn to study agriculture as a career. ![]()
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