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State digs up R1,2bn to help distressed farmers

07 April 2020 - 08:00 By Bekezela Phakati
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Farmers get a helping hand worth R1.2bn from government to relieve pressure from the coronavirus outbreak.
Farmers get a helping hand worth R1.2bn from government to relieve pressure from the coronavirus outbreak.
Image: WIKUS DE WET / AFP

Distressed farmers are to receive government grants to help them through the Covid-19 crisis, according to agriculture, land reform and rural development minister Thoko Didiza.

The department has ring-fenced R1.2bn, mainly for financially battered small-scale farmers.

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