{"id":1684,"date":"2022-06-14T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2022\/06\/14\/mec-mase-manopole-delivers-a-keynote-address-at-the-zf-mgcawu-district-farmers-lekgotla\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:27:42","slug":"mec-mase-manopole-delivers-a-keynote-address-at-the-zf-mgcawu-district-farmers-lekgotla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2022\/06\/14\/mec-mase-manopole-delivers-a-keynote-address-at-the-zf-mgcawu-district-farmers-lekgotla\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC MASE MANOPOLE DELIVERS A KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE ZF MGCAWU DISTRICT FARMERS LEKGOTLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pull-left size-full wp-image-1683\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MEC_Concludes_ZF_Lekgotla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MEC_Concludes_ZF_Lekgotla.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/06\/MEC_Concludes_ZF_Lekgotla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MEC Mase Manopole said the District Farmers Makgotla are designed to determine the different agricultural development opportunities within each district, and how the latest development programs can assist.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the second leg of the District Farmers Makgotla in Upington, ZF Mgcawu District, MEC Manopole said: &#8220;Our Farmers across the province are confronted by disastrous climatic conditions. An opportunity should be granted to establish the latest mitigation models and determine a response with alternative agriculture and modern agricultural technology to become sustainable practitioners within the agricultural space.&#8221;<br \/>She was accompanied by the ZF Mgcawu District Mayor, Cllr. Marius Louw.<\/p>\n<p>MEC Manopole said the Makgotla will give the Department an opportunity to come up with structured, focused, measurable as well as resourced output &#8220;which will require monitoring, including an implementation plan which will be regularly reviewed by all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MEC further alluded that the Department will seek to establish a platform or forum to engage with all the farmers\u2019 union on a periodic basis, &#8220;so that we can increase and strengthen our partnership in to the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department must also deepen its relationship with all farmers and engage them consistently in all districts. This, should be done systematically and in a structured way at least every second month, &#8221; she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEC Mase Manopole said the District Farmers Makgotla are designed to determine the different agricultural development opportunities within each district, and how the latest development programs can assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}