"In a world where war is provoked by food scarcity, farmers are the peacekeepers. No surprise, then, so many regimes want more of them," writes a journalist visiting the South African farmers taking up farming in Georgia.
SA’s commercial agricultural skills are a sought-after currency on the continent, with Nigeria and Sierra Leone the latest to announce bold plans to recruit South African farmers to their countries.
O Governo da Geórgia optou por uma solução pouco ortodoxa para desenvolver a agricultura do país: atrair os descendentes dos bôeres holandeses que se estabeleceram no sul da África com terras a preços irrisórios e cidadania.
El Gobierno de Georgia ha optado por una una solución poco ortodoxa para levantar la agricultura del país: tentar a los descendientes de los bóers holandeses que se afincaron en el sur de África con tierras a precio de regalo y ciudadanía.
South Africa’s biggest farmers union, Agri SA, said its members are seeking to expand into Egypt, Morocco and Sudan while putting plans to enter Libya on hold
The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa
The Transvaal Agricultural Union believes as many as a thousand skilled South African farmers could go to plough their own furrow in Georgia where the government is offering them 80,000 ha
