ISPAAD FARMER BENEFITS FROM EARLY RAINS

Tobane farmers including Mothembiso were the first to welcome the good rains at the start of the ploughing season last year when the area received 100mm of rainfall. Mothembiso did not delay but started preparing her farm in Dambashalala farms and ploughed nine hectares of beans. Just last week she says she sold 11 bags of beans to BAMB making over P7,000 in profit.

With only three years into farming, a retired accountant who invested her retirement package into farming, said she ploughed all the nine hectares with donkeys and used the traditional planting method, which she said produces more yield than the common broadcasting method.