EWN reports that President Jacob Zuma told residents in Westonaria on Tuesday that he was proud of them for taking agriculture seriously and promised them that government would work hard to ensure that they have jobs.
The president was delivering the keynote address at the Westonaria Agri-Park on Tuesday where dozens of people gathered to listen to him speak. Zuma said government wanted to bring 300,000 new small holder farmers into the agricultural sector and to create 145,000 new agro-processing jobs. He said the government's Agri-Park Programme, which aimed to create over 89,000 jobs by 2019 in identified rural regions in the country, was very important. “It brings millions of African people, including women, youth and people with disabilities into productive activities and ownership within the mainstream economy,” Zuma stated.
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