Benefits of Fort Hare Nguni Cattle Project to be felt for generations to come
In September last year, Prof Naftali Mollel wrote a blog for the DRUSSA website about the successes achieved in the Nguni Cattle Project at the University of Limpopo in South Africa. This project is, in fact, part of a larger one taking place in seven provinces, whereby a university in each of the provinces collaborates with the department of agriculture and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to work with emerging farmers to grow Nguni herds. Farmer communities are given a number of pregnant heifers and one or two bulls on loan and, over a period of five years, have to return the same number of heifers and bulls. Meanwhile, their own herds continue to grow.
