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    Essential oils: a balm for emerging farmers

    Aug 10, 2020 4 minutes
    PHOTOS: MIKE BURGESS

    “I ’m really attached to this project now. I want it to be a success.” So says Qobo Qobo Essential Oils (QQ) project consultant Mike Pedersen-Horn, who, along with Dean Lemmer, QQ farm operations manager, is spearheading the establishment of 90ha of irrigated essential oil crops in the marginalised Keiskammahoek area of the Eastern Cape.

    Pedersen-Horn, a vegetable farmer from East London, now spends two days a week in Keiskammahoek managing the QQ project, which has already created 40 permanent jobs.

    HUB MODEL

    To ensure that emerging farmers gain commercial expertise as efficiently as possible, QQ’s management has based the operation

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