We understand that the perfect farm takes passion, dedication and sometimes just that little bit extra, which is why AFGRI is proud to support South Africa’s new era farmers through our training and development programme, housed within Lemang Agricultural Services.
Lemang Agricultural Services delivers AFGRI’s farmer training and development programme. With over 95 years of experience in the agricultural sector, AFGRI understands what it takes to be a successful farmer. With this in mind, we launched a sustainable training and development programme in 2012 to unlock the potential of farmers and their farms through training, development and mentorship. The programme aims to train and develop farmers to ensure sustainable, viable, independent and successful farmers. This in turn ensures increased agricultural productivity through the provision of agricultural services by AFGRI and access to markets, with the farmers able to realise the benefits.
The programme assists farmers through theoretical training, mentorship, as well as technical advice over a five-year period.
Study groups and trial sites are used to demonstrate new technology such a precision farming, while mentors and agronomists are on hand to share practical information and knowledge and offer insight that comes from many years of experience.
However, the mentorship is arguably the most valuable component of all – by working directly with new era farmers throughout the process, AFGRI’s mentors, working with teams from AFGRI’s precision farming division, and its agronomists, can assist farmers in enhancing their yields. This puts the farmer in a good position to grow more crops, ultimately helping him or her to become the successful commercial farmer of tomorrow.
Our successes run deep and importantly, are sustainable thanks to intensive mentorship, training, guidance and the care entrenched in our service ethic.
