Agricultural Resources
The National Agricultural Directory – Rainbow SA
Rainbow SA is a small black-owned organisation that fulfils this need through running comprehensive national information services for national issues (such as Skills Development, Black Economic Empowerment and the Environment) and key growth sectors (such as Agriculture). The directories are industry leading in their ability to gather entire sectors and all role-players into one publication and have become the standard for sector and issue-based directories. They simplify the key issues. They broaden the reader's horizons and introduce new thinking and best-practise. They also provide plain-English step-by-step guides to legislation, Codes and other key concepts and programs. For more information please visit http://www.rainbowsa.co.za or call 011 485 2036.
AgriSETA – Agricultural Sector Education Training
AgriSETA covers all the economic sub sectors previously demarcated to PAETA (Primary Agriculture) and SETASA (Secondary Agriculture). As the list of sub sectors is identified by their SIC codes, is quite extensive, the following is a broad summary:
- All types of farming such as horticulture, animal husbandary, game, fish, crop and mixed farms
- Slaughtering and handling of meat and livestock products – red meat and poultry (including egg production)
- Processing of fibre, tea & coffee, macadamia nuts and tobacco
- Packing, drying, liquefying, exporting and importing fruit
- Milling, manufacture, storage and handling of sugar and grain products and starch
- Animal feeds and pet foods
- Sales and distribution of agricultural raw materials and other farming inputs and requisites
- Agricultural research
- Pest Control
- Seed production and marketing
For more information please visit http://www.agriseta.co.za or call (012) 325 1655
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) is the Department of Trade and Industry's agency for supporting small business in South Africa.
seda was established in December 2004 in terms of the National Small Business Amendment Act. This law merged the previous small enterprise development agencies Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency, NAMAC Trust and the Community Public Private Partnerships (CPPP) into a single small enterprise support agency. The mandate of seda is to design and implement a standard national delivery network that must uniformly apply throughout the country. Its role includes the support and promotion of co-operative enterprises, particularly those located in rural areas. Fund the Manufacturing Advice Centres (Mac) programme where manufacturers and businesses in select business sectors can get up to 90% of their business support intervention sponsored. Also funds local business support centres and tender advice centres
seda aims to:
- Strengthen support for SMMEs' access to finance
- Create an enabling regulatory environment
- Expand market opportunities for specific categories of small enterprises
- Localise small business support through a grid of seda-coordinated information and advice access points
- Initiate a national entrepreneurship drive and expand education and training for small business
- Co-fund minimum business infrastructure facilities in local authority areas across the country
Click here for more information http://www.seda.org.za or call 0860 103703
Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute (GADI)
The Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute delivers the following broad range of services:
- Formal mainstream education in agriculture
- Training courses in and to small stock and emerging farmers
- Research and Development for the animal and crop producers in the servicing area
- Advise on new farming technology and small stock farming
- Agricultural advise on conservation of natural resources which includes soil, water and feed analysis
- Agriculture engineering services
- Diagnostic and analytical services at our in house laboratories, including the veterinary services from the Eastern Cape Province veterinary unit.
Click here for more information http://gadi.agric.za or call 049 842 1113
Cape Institute for Agricultural Training: Elsenburg
The Farmer Support and Development Programme encompasses the broad development agenda of the Department of Agriculture, meaning that the design and implementation are predominantly for supporting black farmers in the Western Cape Province but does not exclude the commercial sector. This support to beneficiaries ranges from land reform to institutional capacity building. Given that the predominant need for the development of an equitable and diverse agricultural sector has been identified, 80% of the budget will be utilised to build the capacity of the historically disadvantaged communities and individuals. The commercial sector employs more than 200 000 people and therefore 20% of budget will be allocated to support this sector.
The FSD programme provides extension, support and facilitation of training to farmers, with special emphasis on developing of emerging farmers, implementation of land reform programmes and agricultural rural development projects.
Click here for more information or call http://www.elsenburg.com or call 021 808 5111.
Land Bank
The Land Bank’s key strategy is to achieve social and developmental growth that is financially sustainable by providing competitively-priced products and services tailored to meet every diverse need of the agricultural sector.
Click here for more information or call http://www.landbank.co.za or call 0800 00 52 59.
Standard Bank
Recognising that agriculture is characterised by strong cyclical trends, Standard Bank offers structured advances and loans, which take the effects of these cycles into account. Whether you need to acquire new property, finance equipment or fund operating expenses, Standard Bank have a solution to meet your requirements, such as overdrafts, asset finance, medium-term loans or business revolving credit.
Click here for more information or call http://www.standardbank.co.za or call 0860 123 000
Khula Enterprise
Business owners who struggle to get bank loans because they lack collateral can approach the DTI's small business finance organisation for Khula-guaranteed bank loans. These include amongst others; the Individual Guarantee Scheme which is available through the banks to small business owners who want loans of R1m or less but have no collateral and the Emerging Entrepreneur Scheme which lends to SMMEs with less than R2 million.
Please feel free to contact http://www.khula.org.za or call (012) 394 5560.
Department of Trade and Industry
Government initiatives, facilitated by the DTI and associated organisations, include the Centre for Small Business Promotion (CSBP), Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency and Khula Enterprise Finance.
The CSBP implements and administers the aims of the national strategy, which includes job creation. The DTI has recently signed an agreement with the European Union which will see the EU donating R550m to start a risk capital fund for SMMEs.
Click here for more information http://www.dti.gov.za or call 0861 843 384.
