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Cultivating tomorrow’s leaders in agriculture

In February this year, I was one of the young farmers (under the age of 40) chosen to take part in the Leadership Academy in Agriculture sponsored by Syngenta, Grain SA and the North-West University Business School.

Most of the participants were farm managers or senior employees of established agribusinesses. Some worked in organised agriculture and others, like myself, were farmers. We came from diverse

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