Three vital factors for a new farming operation
Establishing new farmers, particularly black ones, is of crucial importance to the success of this country. For this reason, our page on emerging farmer support is under “Issues here and beyond our border” along with energy, climate change and water, rather than in another category, say, with consultants or agribusiness.
It goes without saying that motivation would be on the list of requirements to make a success of farming. It is no use placing people on the land who only consider farming to be “a nice idea”. There must be the resolve to make it work. We are also assuming the existence of things like infrastructure (roads) and natural resources (water).