In Joe Gqabi to Keep the departmental Ears To The Ground.
In the three districts covered, it has already come out succinctly clear that in this term as the MEC, without being limited to, I will have to drive the department to :
❖ Transform key institutions to promote agricultural growth and offer multiple economic opportunities especially for women, youth and disabled people;
❖ Increase in production of crops, livestock and all other related subsectors to enhance food self-sufficiency and to increase food security;
❖ Promote efficient utilisation of agricultural land;
❖ Expansion of irrigable land, focusing in the Eastern part of the Eastern Cape. This irrigation will focus on development of crops and livestock;
❖ Improve access to market for producers; and
❖ Add value and agro processing to agricultural products before reaching local and international markets
In this process, we are also meeting departmental employees with unions and the district senior management