In these parts round here I’m known as
#CabbageGirl
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In March we sold 35k cabbages worth R617k 💸😝
Today farm gate price for cabbage was R16 😃
Midlands farmers are smart. They take turns to sell to keep the price up.
Chess not checkers ♟️
#Agribusiness
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Gugulethu Farm harvesting 137ha yellow maize. A record 11T/ha. At R3,7k this is a big pay day. 🤑
Harvesting early to avoid the risk of wind damage so they'll dry it to reach 14% moisture level off site. Thereafter, this maize will move to Durban harbour for export 🚢
My mom has a Medical practice in Spruitview, Katlehong. We do antenatal care, family planning, mental wellness and general primary healthcare. 🏥👩🏽⚕️👩🏾⚕️👨🏽⚕️👨🏾⚕️👨🏿⚕️ My plan is to get her from 8k patients a year to 20k
#FlameOn
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#AfricanGirlChronicles
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#SheOO
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Herbs and baby vegetables - these are ideal crops for controlled and contained production. Hilton and his wife are making a killing and even exporting their piquant peppers to Germany.
Anyone interested in planting these peppers - these guys are looking for supply 🌶️
We’ve run out of space to plant 😢 Literally discing our last 04.ha. This means by September we will be out of cabbage if we don’t find a new place to plant. 🪴
This week one of our retailers wants 5760 heads of cabbage every day 🤪
#CabbageGirl
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#SheOO
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#Agribusiness
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Do y’all know how much packaging and storage for fresh produce costs?
Spinach tags cost me 37c each ➕40c per bunch for storage. I estimate elastics are 1c each. Then they charge me 2.5% rebate. If I sell for R8 I’m already down R1. What about transport and cost of production?
Did you know:
27% of women in Africa start a business. The highest rate in the world.
Women produce 62% of Africa’s economic goods but only 8.5% are wage earners.
Africa is now the leading continent for women’s entrepreneurship.
Let’s work ladies 💅🏽💪🏾🖤🌍🛖
#Womandla
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Agriculture is like the stock market. As a farmer you should understand your product enough to be able to weigh risks and capitalise on any weaknesses in the market. 📈
We buy at R7- R10. Sell at R10- R12. We are not farmers. We aggregate produce and supply retailers.
Tomorrow I will post a link for a cabbage production plan.
I am not a farmer. The best way to learn how to farm is trial and error.
Thanks for all the lovely messages ❤️🙏🏾
@_Cyborg_99
@ntsikimazwai
Your kid CAN get a quality education if you also help with homework and also teach him/her. Kasi School + Home Schooling by loving parent = Success! 🖤🖤✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
😍👩🏾🌾👩🏽🌾👩🏿🌾
“Women are the backbone of small scale agriculture…” ❌
No buddy. Women are the backbone of Agriculture period! Every farm I’ve been on, at least 70% of the labour is women 💅🏽✊🏾
#Agriculture
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#Agribusiness
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#GirlPower
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Even on the toughest days you should smile 😊🥹
“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.
The crawling, consuming, chewing locust. My great army which I sent among you.
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied” - Joel 2:25-26 🙏🏾
Meet Palesa Motaung, Co-founder of Agrikool. This Agri-fintech innovator from East Rand supports small-scale farmers with market access, finance, & intelligence. She also enjoys applying her Geology & Soil Science background. Listen to her on
@CapeTalk
:
A whole professor from Kenya 🇰🇪 told me that my thought pattern and how I communicate is very systematic and logical.
What a compliment 😎🧐
As a science communicator it’s important I’m able to relay complex, scientific concepts in an easy and appropriate way for my audience
@cnehshuga
@tshego_m_
I found a little girl in my window seat. I was like excuse me little missus, this is my seat 😐
Then people started attacking me saying how can a grown woman like me attack a little kid 😂😂😭😭
#NdunasOfKZN
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Our planting of peppers 🫑 and tomatoes 🍅 is underway although a bit delayed. If you’re not organised believe me you’ll plant late and might miss an opportune time to enter the market.
#SheOO
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#PlantingSeason
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#agribusiness
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@ngabosiya
We connect fresh produce growers to retailers. Thank you. I'd ask that we continue eating vegetables 💪🏾 and supporting informal traders too 💜
Agriculture employs up to 80% of the population in some African countries. It’s the best way we can create employment and elevate Africa 📈🌍
Agriculture is our life line 🥗🥙🌯🐄🐑🌾🌹🌻🐝👩🏽🌾👨🏽🌾👩🏾🌾👨🏿🌾👨🏼🌾👩🏿🌾🧑🏻🌾👩🌾
We’re planting on a Sunday. Why not catch some fish 🎣 and have a braai with our team and friends. There’s always something to celebrate. 😄
#AfricanGirlChronicles
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#CabbageGirl
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@Kwantusoul_
Hello. We connect fresh produce growers to retailers (market access). We also provide logistical support, market intelligence and negotiate on behalf of the farmer.
Dear Gents,
Just because a girl is polite, kind, cute 💁🏾♀️ doesn't mean you can touch her. Her arm, shoulder, whatever are off limits ✖️
Don't touch a woman without her permission.
Thanks
Do you guys know that Japan has over 33k business that are over 100 years old 🤯
Legacy has been a theme lately in my life and there’s so much to learn from the Japanese 🇯🇵 culture about this topic.
How Japanese have produced wood for 700 years, without cutting down trees.
Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique developed in the 14th century originally used by people living in the Kitayama region, because the territory was extremely poor in saplings.
They
Here I am at the French Embassy pretending to be MEC for agriculture with my fellow colleague💅🏽
I’ve always believed good research is a great policy making enabler. Now that I’m on the ground, I realise great research is experience. You have to live it to make decisions about it
It costs about R4.00 to grow a head of cauliflower.
It’s quite a sensitive crop though. It’s important you try keep an uninterrupted cold chain from harvest to shelf. While this quality control may be costly I wonder if it justifies this huge mark up?
#Agribusiness
AgriKool is a small agricultural business making a big impact! 🌱 After striking a deal with the Shoprite Group they delivered fresh produce worth over R3 million in just over a year & boosted employment in the KZN Midlands.
@ThwalaZamoh
@ModoP88
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Hello 👩🏾🌾
My name is Palesa. I have sourced and packed peppers, tomatoes, butternut, cabbage, spinach, broccoli and cauliflower for KZNs biggest retailers.
Ask me about agribusiness and I will try my best to answer
I’m exhausted 😫 but on the bright side
@new_shana
and I now know how to get your farm Local GAP certified.
What a process!! Out of curiosity, what is the real incentive for a farmer to do alla dis?
Msinga 😍 Yho.
This place can be an Agrihub. So many farmers and our Government has invested so much in the area. There’s klomp irrigation schemes, pack sheds and tractors 🚜. They just need that last big push.
Since yesterday we’ve taken soil samples at 17 farms. 💪🏾
Back to mathata a agriculture 👩🏽🌾
This happened to our crops last night after flooding in Mooi River 😢
We also lost a whole field of spinach due to hail 🌪️⛈️
Summer season is tough. We’ve lost around 52k heads of cabbage so far out of around 200k planted 😣
These are the kind of board meetings I like 👩🏽💼
My mom and I took out her partners today for a spa 🧖🏽♀️ day and lunch.
Feeling super recharged and ready to head back to the Zulu Kingdom 🖤
Got to visit one of my fave farmers 😍
SAs first Black Farmer to export carolina reaper chillies ✊🏾
R410 per kg. 2 tunnels = 11 000 plants. Each plant yields 3.5kg of produce
💸💸💸🤑🤑
#AfricanGirlChronicles
#agribusiness
#EliteFarmers
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Maigot! 😀 We found spinach!
There is a HUGE shortage of spinach in KZN. Some retailers are sourcing from as far as W.Cape. Scarcity has driven farm gate prices from R40 per bale just 6 wks ago to R120 😵😱
Trust us to find KZNs finest farmers & deliver the best produce👌🏾
Yay! I got my lab results back from the
@ARCSouthAfrica
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Yhoo.
@FabAcademic
's
#Past3amSquad
is always on my mind. I will finish this year noma kanjan' Atleast I had pushed my lit. review in December.
S/O ARC. We appreciate you as young black scientists. 🎓
#ThesisLife
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