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Department steps in to alleviate damaging impact of load-shedding on agri sector

The Agriculture Energy Task team, launched by Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza in January, recently gave feedback on measures taken to address the impact of load-shedding on the agriculture sector.

The task team said in its presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform in late February that it had conducted a survey to establish the impact of the

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