{"id":1819,"date":"2023-04-19T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/04\/19\/challenges-of-agro-processing-will-be-on-the-spotlight-when-provinces-meet-in-the-nc\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:46:22","slug":"challenges-of-agro-processing-will-be-on-the-spotlight-when-provinces-meet-in-the-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/04\/19\/challenges-of-agro-processing-will-be-on-the-spotlight-when-provinces-meet-in-the-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"CHALLENGES OF AGRO-PROCESSING WILL BE ON THE SPOTLIGHT WHEN PROVINCES MEET IN THE NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>CHALLENGES OF AGRO-PROCESSING WILL BE ON THE SPOTLIGHT WHEN PROVINCES MEET IN THE NC.<\/p>\n<p>Various Provinces will converge in the Northern Cape to tackle challenges of agro-processing in the country from the 16th till the 18th.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The three day agro-processing workshop is the 18th National Agro-processing Forum (NAF), and seeks to ensure alignment and coordination of agro-processing development initiatives amongst the three spheres of Government. And also to leverage synergies and promote greater Master Plan for successful implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The theme is \u201cUnpacking the Agriculture and Agro-Processing Master Plan for successful implementation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In consistent with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996 as amended, specifically Section 40 and 41, further the Inter-Governmental Relations Framework (IGR, 2005), the National Agro-processing Forum was established in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Various topics such as, Background and the Rationale of the Agriculture &amp; Agro-processing Master Plan, Unpacking the commercial enablers for sustainable and inclusive development, Human Resources to enhance the competitive performance of the agro-processing industry, the intervention pillars to unlock the competitiveness and the performance of the agro-processing and the Alignment with poultry, sugar and the cannabis master plan to mention just few.<\/p>\n<p>The functions of the NAF are as follows;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operationalize the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan (AAMP)<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate implementation of the agro-processing initiatives articulated in the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP).<\/li>\n<li>Promote and encourage alignment of policy, strategy and programmes amongst various agro-processing government actors.<\/li>\n<li>Exchange experience and share lessons on best practice agro-processing development models.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure multi-institutional programmes and project planning and execution, and<\/li>\n<li>Foster partnerships and strengthen communications amongst stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The workshop will wind-up its business by visiting two agro-processing plants in Warrenton, Hartswater and the Vaalharts Research Station in Jan Kemp Dorp.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHALLENGES OF AGRO-PROCESSING WILL BE ON THE SPOTLIGHT WHEN PROVINCES MEET IN THE NC. Various Provinces will converge in the Northern Cape to tackle challenges of agro-processing in the country from the 16th till the 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}