To commemorate youth month, Food For Mzansi hosted the annual Mzansi Young Farmers Indaba. The two-day event featured top speakers on, among other topics, climate-smart agriculture, innovative farming techniques, financing, and marketing strategies for farmers.

According to Jaco Beyers, managing director for Africa and the Middle East at John Deere, a senior partner for the indaba, the young farmers of Mzansi exhibit remarkable tenacity.

He says this tenacity enables them to survive in the challenging years and expand in the good ones. In this edition he shares some of his Indaba highlights…