ETHEKWINI MEDIA INVITE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12 July 2022

City’s Business Support, Markets, Tourism and AgriBusiness Unit is moving with speed to absorb unemployed youth into Agribusiness sector. Thanks to the AgriBusiness Masterplan adopted by City Council in 2020 to support and unlock opportunities for local AgriSMME’s in the vegetables, sheep, poultry, cannabis and piggery commodities. This initiative resulted in youth cooperatives taking over former Rainbow chicken farms in Cato Ridge.

To diversify the sector, on Thursday 14 July, the Municipality will host an Intensive Sheep Field Day where the sheep breeding project will be launched.

The aim is to showcase the progress made in the development of intensive sheep business as an approved commodity as well as to engage with stakeholders on possibilities to partner and grow the scale of sheep production in eThekwini. The short term goal is to grow local herd of sheep to unlock demand for reopening or building of new abattoirs.

DETAILS FOR THE EVENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Venue: Cato Ridge Agri-Park Incubator, Hammarsdale (Former Rainbow Chicken Farm)

Date:  14 July 2022

Time: 09:30

To RSVP, kindly contact Nonduduzo Ngcongo on 078 131 4618 or email: nonduduzo.ngcongo@durban.gov.za

NB: Members of the media who require transport must kindly indicate in their RSVP’s by the end of business today. This will give us an idea on the size of transport needed. Transport will leave at 8h30 from the City Hall Auditorium parking.

ENDS.

Issued by eThekwini Municipality’s Communications Unit. For more information, contact eThekwini Municipality’s Spokesperson on 031 311 4820/18 or 060 966 4220 or email: msawakhe.mayisela@durban.gov.za