Times Of Swaziland: NEDBANK’S E125 000 FOR WOMAN FARMER COMPETITION

NEDBANK’S E125 000 FOR WOMAN FARMER COMPETITION
================================================================================
Ashmond Nzima on 20/10/2020 15:45:00


MBABANE - Nedbank injected a sponsorship worth E125 000 to the Woman Farmer
Foundation (WFF).
WFF hosted the Woman Farmer of the Year competition last Thursday.  The event
was held at Riders Ranch, Sidvokodvo where dignitaries from government,
non-governmental and private sector as well as parliamentarians and women
farmers converged for the much-anticipated event in the agricultural sector. The
bank has been the anchor sponsor of the Woman Farmer of the Year competition for
over a decade now. Nedbank Managing Director Fikile Nkosi congratulated all the
Top 10 winners in both the adult and youth categories.
Congratulations
“As the main sponsor of the Woman Farmer of the Year competition, we would
like to pass our warmest congratulations to all the winners of this year’s
Woman Farmer of the Year competition. We particularly say bravo to Baluleka
Mohale (adult category winner) and Rose Maseko (youth category winner) as they
came out tops during a very difficult time affecting the agricultural sector and
the world at large. We are really proud of them.”
Speaking during the event last Thursday, Nkosi said the bank is passionate about
participating in activities that help drive our country’s growth and
development through agriculture. “As Money experts who do good, we want our
farmers to ‘see money differently’ through managing their agriculture
ventures like a business because we know that money well managed can make a
positive difference to the lives of farmers, their families and their
communities. Our doors are open to all women farmers across the country as we
want to assist grow your enterprises and to give you the much-needed expertise
to make that happen,” she said.
The MD stated that the pandemic calls for strong cooperation across all sectors
of the economy to fight the virus and care for the sick and to alleviate the
socio-economic effects.
“If we fail to react in this manner, it threatens to create among other
issues, a food security risk for the people of Eswatini and millions of others
around the world. “Therefore, we all must play our part in ensuring that we
safeguard the uninterrupted flow of both production and trade in agriculture,
allowing women farmers to continue farming to ensure food produced reaches local
communities, regional and international markets. As sponsors and the private
sector, we have a huge responsibility to advance far-reaching support to farmers
and rural areas, by providing financing at favourable terms and availing market
opportunities to woman farmers as needed,” Nkosi added.