More than 300 people from communities around Manzana in the Chief Albert Luthuli municipality in Mpumalanga are benefitting from an agricultural food basket initiative launched by the provincial government.
The rural communities are producing vegetables on 1 500 hectares of land.
The food basket project is being rolled out in four phases across the province.
It is projected that it could eventually generate about R1.2 billion in produce.
Some of the people involved in the project have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 while others are working for the first time in their lives.
“This is my first job and it will help me with my children, it will help us a lot, the project is going to assist us to reduce the rate of unemployment and it will help with food in our community.”
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