Agri SA welcomes the signing of the Agriculture and Agro Processing Masterplan (AAMP) by Minister Thoko Didiza and sector stakeholders.

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The plan does not meet the minimum requirements of scientificity, fairness, inclusivity or clarity and is therefore doomed to fail.

Background The Agricultural and Agro-processing Master Plan (AAMP) was signed at a ceremony in Cape Town on 12 May, after a two-year-long consultation process in which Agbiz fully participated.

This was an important week in South Africa's agricultural sector. We had a budget vote speech and the signing off of the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan.

Despite great excitement among government officials, agribusinesses, trade unions and the ANC about the agricultural master plan, it is getting wind against it from the farmers and the organisations representing them at grassroots level. No attempt to dampen or ignore the debate could up until now silence the voices objecting to the master plan.

Die Minister van Landbou, Thoko Didiza, het die afgelope week tydens die voorlegging van haar Departement se jaarlikse begroting aan die Parlement ook die hersiene Landbou- en Agro-verwerkingsmeesterplan bekendgestel wat deur die betrokke partye onderteken is," aldus Fanie Brink ‘n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom.

No one can at this point afford to just watch and do nothing about the challenges in South Africa.

Phase one of the three-year Sugarcane Value Chain Master Plan recently ended, marking a critical point for reflection in the industry.

It is roughly a year since the signing of the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan (AAMP).

As we are fast approaching the second anniversary of South Africa’s Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan, there is very little to show in terms of implementation on the ground.

For a few months, attributing bold ideological measures by the Department of Agriculture and its SOEs, which are out of step with the DA’s own policies and pre-election positions, to “muscle memory” worked for Minister Steenhuisen.