Gamtoos vegetable farmers drive hundreds of kms daily to keep going during drought
Eight years of drought has had a “fatal impact” on vegetable production in the Eastern Cape’s Gamtoos Valley, says Noelie le Roux.
“There are only two or three farmers left who plant vegetables in the Gamtoos,” he says.
On his farm called Spes Bona (“we could do with some of that”, he remarks) vegetables make up 60% to 70% of his enterprise, with citrus
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