A workshop on Sustainable Transformation: the Road Ahead will be hosted with the support of VinPro and is scheduled for 20 April, from 07:30 to 10:30 at the Standard Bank Agri Centre at the Agri Cape Week terrain. “Several producers were very successful with initiatives regarding black economic empowerment, social upliftment and land reform.
There is a need to share their successes with other producers and to illustrate that transformation, can impact positively on businesses and workers if it is implemented with sustainability in mind,” says Johan Giliomee, advice service manager of VinPro and coordinator of the workshop.
Giliomee will provide an overview of successful transformation and empowerment in the wine industry and will be followed by the representative of Solms-Delta who will provide perspective and approaches that enhance successful empowerment and the benefits it offers to commercial producers.
Chairperson of the highly regarded Adama Workers Trust, SEB partner of the Bosman Family Vineyard, Rita Andreas, will, on behalf of beneficiaries, talk about the benefits and motivations that sustainable empowerment projects offers to workers. Finally Dudley Adolph, chief director: Support and Development of Agriculturalists from the Western Cape Department of Agriculture, will share thoughts about the role of funds, provided by the department, to support existing and new black farmers of sustainable farming initiatives.
Bien Donné Agri Cape Week 2012 hosts a Transformation Tent which will exhibit empowerment farms and businesses in all commodities of the Western Cape, transformation successes and products. Only 80 seats are available and to ensure your participation in the workshop you will have to book without delay. Registration is compulsory. Contact Anne-Marie le Roux at 021 863 1803 or e-mail [email protected].
Bien Donné Agri Cape Week takes place at the ARC Research Farm between Paarl and Franschhoek from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 April.
For more information contact Reinette Basson at 021 863 1803 or visit the website www.agrimega.co.za .
