80 PHAHAMA GRAIN PHAKAMA NPC Producers per category in numbers per office Subsistence Small holder Potential New Era Commercial Free State 3 108 43 42 7 203 0,99% North West 18 301 96 37 2 454 2,22% Maclear 2 393 34 2 0 3 2 432 11,91% Kokstad 3 607 24 13 3 3 3 650 17,87% Mthatha 5 986 10 2 0 0 5 998 29,37% Dundee 4 317 60 33 8 3 4 421 21,65% Mbombela 3 244 17 3 0 0 3 264 15,98% TOTAL 19 568 554 192 90 18 20 422 100,00% 95,82% 2,71% 0,94% 0,44% 0,09% Table 2: Producers per category in numbers per office. Hectares per category per development office Subsistence (ha) Small holder (ha) Potential (ha) New Era (ha) Commercial (ha) Free State - 13 250 9 206 13 247 5 340 41 043 31,14% North West 76 21 366 11 120 10 574 750 43 886 33,30% Maclear 1 286 1 830 240 - 200 3 556 2,70% Kokstad 3 459 2 110 1 405 1 101 680 8 755 6,64% Mthatha 5 417 349 500 - - 6 266 4,75% Louwsburg 850 2 386 2 279 4 862 1 385 11 762 8,93% Dundee 4 506 2 317 2 247 2 366 1 187 12 623 9,58% Mbombela 2 545 1 350 - - - 3 895 2,96% TOTAL 18 139 44 958 26 997 32 150 9 542 131 786 100,00% 13,76% 34,11% 20,49% 24,40% 7,24% Table 3: Hectares per category per PGP office. Small holder – 10,5 ha to 50 ha of arable land being used Potential commercial producers – using more than 50 ha of arable land but producing less than 250 tons New Era commercial producers – producing more than 250 tons of any grains, cereals or oilseeds in one year Table 2 indicates the number of producers per category in number per office. Access to arable land is an important factor in the development of producers. Table 3 shows the land that our producers have available to use: Study groups The purpose of the study groups is to encourage developing producers – primarily subsistence and small holder farmers – to join study groups which are facilitated by a Grain SA/PGP Regional Development Coordinator and team who are experienced agriculturalists and generally competent in the language of each group of producers. To ensure that the producers and facilitators meet regularly throughout the season, to learn and share knowledge about improving grain production yields through modern methods of best practice at an appropriate level for the producers.
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