Korema Farm was established by Kobela Mokgohloa's grandfather in Winterveldt near Pretoria in 1995 with the main focus on growing cabbage and spinach.
By 2002, his father was also involved in the business, and the family expanded into a more diverse operation and started planting tomatoes and peppers on the farm.
Around 2004 the farm employed 17 people and its main produce were cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes. Korema supplied chiefly the Tshwane and Joburg markets.
Mokgohloa matriculated trom the Potchefstroom High School for Boys in 2005 and went on to work for five years at aircraft manufacturer Global Composite Solutions at Wonderboom Airport. His employer encouraged him to learn to fly, and he obtained his private pilot licence in 2008 through an aviation school in Pretoria. However, all the passion that Mokgohloa had for flying was put on hold when he won the SAB KickStart entrepreneurship programme around 2009.
“They awarded me R100 000 towards a concept I had presented to them on feedlotting cattle,“ he recalls. ”I then left aviation to pursue my career in agriculture on our family farm in
