Nkwinti outlined various initiatives aimed to support smallholder farmers as well as agro-processing businesses and small enterprises based in rural areas.
Nkwinti said that sugar cane farms in KwaZulu-Natal; red meat farms in the Free State, North West and the Northern Cape; poultry in the North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga and citrus in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Western Cape, are among the farms that had made progress, with 1 307 farms still to be reached by the programme. "Since 2009," Nkwinti said, "823 300 hectares of land had been acquired and redistributed." A total of 1.14 million hectares of land had been surveyed in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Nkwinti added that ongoing discussions with stakeholders aim to "ensure that land restitution beneficiaries retain water rights after settlement."
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