Last week we hosted a great iZindaba Zokudla in the Virtual Farmers’ Lab. We discussed hydroponics, aquaponics and vertical farming. This Lab identified and elaborated on how emerging entrepreneurs can adopt, adapt and innovate with these systems.
Please do contact our speakers should you need more information. Please find their contact details below:
We started the Lab by listening to Veronica Aswani from African Women in Agriculture, WAVONOW and the African Association for Vertical Farming. Veronica is able to assist entrepreneurs with hydroponics, business development through African Women in Agriculture AWIA, and with her latest product the “Amaveggie Pyramid”. Please see: https://www.facebook.com/Amaveggies-116473306778840
This is a low cost system of vertical crop prodiction that uses less than 3 square meters to grow more than 100 plants, depending on the crop. This is a real solution for those with very little space.
Veronica can be contacted at: 082 077 3649 veronica@awia.africa; info@awia.africa
Unathi Sihlahla from INMED gave us an excellent presentation on aquaponics. INMED has developed an aquaponics demonstration farm in Soweto and at many other locations in South Africa. These simple systems can enable anyone to produce fish and vegetables and Unathi showed us a whole series of success stories from their demonstration and training farms all over South Africa.
INMED is accessible and open to inquiries. Please do contact them if you are interested in aquaponics as a farming system. They may just have space for you in their training programmes.
Phone: +27 11 486 1090
Fax: +27 86 606 6890
E-mail: contact@inmed.org
https://inmed.org.za
Media Contact:
Jacqui Moloi
Phone: +2711 463-6372
E-mail: SAmedia@inmed.org
Thendo Ratshitanga from Simeka Harvest showed us state-of-the-art aquaponics systems and please take a look at his video’s on previous blogs. These show us what can be achieved in this regard. Thendo’s services are reasonable and he ios extremely capable, as his video’s will show. Thendo Ratshitanga from Simeka Harvest can be contacted as follows:
Cell: 0827815969
Email: thendor@wagono.com; thendo@simeka.co.za or thendo@kazifarm.co.za. Please see the website for Kazi Farm: www.Kazifarm.co.za
Please stay in touch and be on the lookout for the advertising for our next event on the 28th of May, same place, same url, same time!
Naudé
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