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Continual improvement is important, says New Era grain farmer

Free State farmer Paulus Mosia grew up on the farm Vryheid in the Edenville district with his parents and nine siblings. His father, Jonas, worked here as a farmworker and his mother, Maria, as a housekeeper. His parents were later able to start farming on their own on communal land, and after Mosia matriculated and relocated to Welkom, where he worked on the mines, he used some of his salary to buy cattle to keep on his parents’ land. In 2005, when he heard about an opportunity to apply for access to land through the former Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ (agriculture department) Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy programme, he

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