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THE
GRAIN AND OILSEED INDUSTRY
OF SOUTH AFRICA – A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
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• A free tractor-and-trailer transport system with fixed routes was introduced in
2015 to make transport across the grounds easier.
• The access gates have been sponsored and staffed by Engen for nearly two decades.
• Grain SA’s NAMPO brand is continually expanded and enhanced by means of
the following:
- NAMPO Harvest Day website
- Liaison with agricultural and other media
- Equipped media centre at NAMPO Park
- Media statements and press conferences
- Information office at NAMPO Park
- Special Harvest Day edition of
SA Gaan/Grain
, published in April
- Free booklet with list of exhibitors available at the gates
- List of exhibitors previously available on a mobi system for cellphones
- Grain SA Radio on the air since 2012 for the duration of the Harvest Day This is
operated by OFM Stereo and keeps listeners up to date with traffic flow, events
at NAMPO Park, commercial news and relevant agriculture-related information
- NAMPO Harvest Day app available since 2015 – contains information, daily
programme, grounds map and news
- Presence on social media networks
• As commercial farming started todiversify for the sake of sustainable profitability,
the Harvest Day Committee’s choice of exhibitors and the facilities dynamically
stayed in tune with new developments and the latest farming technology to be
able to give attention to almost every facet of agriculture today.
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION
The Harvest Day offers an ideal opportunity to international exhibitors to investigate
a possible market for their products in South Africa and to make contact with local
distribution networks.
A delegation from Argentina took part in the NAMPO Harvest Day for the first time
in 2008. Since then an Argentinian pavilion has been developed. In 2010 around
five American exhibitioners took part, while new products from Australia were also
exhibited. From 2011 visitors groups from Africa started to become established.
By 2012 the combined exhibitions from America and Argentina formed part of
the overseas exhibitors, with individual exhibitors from Pakistan, Brazil, Italy and
Denmark. More than 45 international exhibitors were involved in the Harvest Day
by 2013.
Welcome to Grain SA Radio...Mr Jannie de Villiers of Grain SA (left) talking to Mr Christie Hansen of OFM Stereo, who annually runs Grain SA
Radio on behalf of Grain SA.
Mr Charl van Rooyen of
Landbouweek-
blad
relaxes over lunch.
Harvest Day Chairperson Cobus van Coller
(left) and Johan Loxton in the electricity
control room. Electricity is purchased in bulk
and distributed around the grounds by us.
Just before the deadline at the media
centre’s news desk concentration is high.