Initiative helps small farmers to survive, grow

Driven by passion and a vision, Benjamin Nkanyane quit his job four years ago and bought a hectare of land in Limpopo to farm vegetables for schools has never looked back.

- Zanele Mbengo

"I did a BSc in agriculture and worked for five years. In 2019, I started Ndavhula Farming Enterprise, specialising in cabbages and butternuts after I identified a gap in the feeding scheme programme at schools around my area. Within a year, my farm had grown to nine hectares."

But then the hard times hit, he told delegates at the launch of the Metropolitan Collective Shapers in KwaZulu-Natal that helped Nkanyane survive.

"I was at the brink of shutting down my business during the Covid pandemic as schools and retail stores had shut down," he said.