Aid for smallholder farmers during the pandemic

Nozizwe Mhlongo farms on 10ha of land in Sehlakwane, a rural area in Limpopo. She uses some of this land for maize production, which recently benefited from Bayer’s ‘Better Farms, Better Lives’ initiative.

Mhlongo is one of the estimated two million smallholder and subsistence farmers in South Africa, many of whom have been impacted by the effects of COVID-19 and the related lockdown regulations.

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