Mosisedi, named after the two Southern District villages the association is straddled between—Mosi and Sedibeng—is a collection of 18 farms over a 10,000-hectare area dedicated to arable farming that has been heavily hit by the effects of inflation.
Mosisedi chair, Kagiso Monkge recently told journalist that multiple international pressures have dramatically inflated the cost of large scale farming production forcing local farmers to shift the cost burden onto consumers. The association, however, has no intention to have its end consumers bear the full burden of inflation without doing everything they can to delay the rising costs of staple crops. “Food security is not just about the availability of food, it’s also about the affordability,” Monkge said. “As farmers, we plan to employ more efficient methods that help to lower our input costs while increasing our yield output," he said. “One of the challenges we have when it comes to increasing our yield output is moisture, we are a semi-arid country and we often have problems with moisture. So what we do is practice techniques like minimal tillage. Techniques like this help us store, conserve, and use less water generally," Monkge informed.
