READER LETTER > By READER LETTER - 30 April 2021 - 09:39 A goatherd and his group of grazers. Small-scale farmers stand to benefit from R1bn set aside to assist more than 75,000 farmers disrupted by Covid-19. File image. Image: Alaister Russell
Minister Thoko Didiza’ s commitment to bring almost 10,000 agricultural extension officers will boost the development of land reform programmes beneficiaries and smallhold farmers. The minister’s intentions are a true inspiration towards the government commitment to rekindle the class of black commercial farmers which was deliberately destroyed by the Native Land Act of 1913.
The minister reiterated that during the Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Promotion approach (Shep) webinar in partnership with Japan International Cooperation Agency. The Shep is a programme geared to assist smallholder producers to increase their income through improving their productivity, better management of group dynamics, embr
Bowdoinham farm among four Maine farms receiving grants to expand
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School Notebook: April 14
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South Portland’s Kaler moves to cook-off finals
South Portland’s Kaler Kooks was one of two Maine teams that advanced to the final round of the 2021 Maine Farm to School Cook-off. The finals competition will be held May 5 at the Maine Department of Education’s Child Nutrition Culinary Classroom in Augusta.
Kaler Kooks will face off against the Whitefield Wildcats team of Sheepscot Valley RSU 12, which serves students in the towns of Alna, Chelsea, Palermo, Somerville, Westport Island, Whitefield and Windsor.
The Maine Farm to School Cook-off is a statewide culinary competition for teams of school nutrition professionals and students to promote local foods in school meals. The sixth annual competition is organized by the Maine DOE’s Child Nutrition Team.
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Thanks to $700,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 can avoid a “pretty significant” staff cut, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle told the district’s board Thursday night, April 8. The risk of cuts stemmed from the “devastating” $420,000 drop in state subsidy the district learned of in February, Tuttle said.
He learned in March, the relief money can go to keeping staff and programs. Without it, towns would be facing a 20% hike, “which obviously we would not do, so we would be reducing staff and creating bigger class sizes,” he said in the April 7 meeting carried over Zoom and Youtube.