Agri-Youth Skills Development
Agricultural Training and Mentorship Programme For 100 Unemployed Youth Within The Greater Gauteng Corridors.
Rebafenyi Entrepreneurship Development & Employablity Programme uses the opportunity to present a proposal for the implementation of this programme. The Programme is an Agricultural Training and Mentorship programme for 100 Unemployed Youth in the Gauteng Corridors with a great interest in the Agriculture sector. The programme is divided into the below two categories:
Entrepreneurship Development Programme:
This programme seeks to train, develop and mentor 100 youth participants with critical and scarce entrepreneurship skills in order to establish their own Cooperatives in the Plant Production sector. The programme further looks in to the personal development of an entrepreneur, Development of Technical skills in the agriculture Space (Plant Production) and also look at the exposure to the Business Environment (New Venture Creation NQF). The 100 participants will be assisted to establish 20 Cooperatives in the Agriculture space. The 20 Cooperatives will be funded with a cash injection in to their operations and establishing the Business.
Skills Capacitation and Job Placement Programme:
In this programme, 100 unemployed youth in the province with a great interest in the Plant Production space will receive technical training, career development, mentorship within the sector and space and also get experiential training from the industry through placement at various companies for a period of 6 months.
Business Training and Business Incubation for small businesses
Our Long Term Vision
The programme seeks to ensure that youth in the various five Corridors of Gauteng get interested in the Agriculture space in order to become role-players in the mainstream economy. The programme focuses on youth in the entrepreneurship space and youth in the Skills Development space. The
entrepreneurs will be assisted with the establishment of cooperatives and access to SMMEs in the Agricultural space with a focus on Plant production and New Venture Creation.
The Gauteng province is central to the agro-processing industry due to their proximity to the large inland South African market as well the neighbouring export markets of Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique. The industry has a trade deficit indicting further opportunities for production. The agro-processing industry is highly concentrated with the top 10 companies in each subsector responsible for – on average – 80% of the output. In the same context, only less than 30% of the country’s key fruit production enters the agro-processing value chain, with majority being exported as fresh produce (study from Tshwane Economic Development Agency).