Minister Senzeni Zokwana will brief the media on the joint project with Statistics South Africa on the establishment of the Producer/Farmer Register (PFR), which will run from 2018 to 2021.
 
The project will collect statistics on commercial and non-commercial farmers. Statistics SA will collect data on commercial farmers through the Census of Commercial Agriculture (CoCA) and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will collect data on non-commercial farmers through the Producer/Farmer Register.
 
The establishment of a Producer/Farmer Register for South Africa is to improve the inaccurate and/or misrepresented statistics of farmers in the non-commercial sector, i.e. smallholder farmers.
 
The details are as follows:
 
Date:              06 November 2018
Time:             10:30 for 11:00
Venue:           GCIS Imbizo Media Centre, 120 Plein Street, Parliament, Cape Town.
 
NB: There will be a video link to GCIS Pretoria - Tshedimosetso House, cnr Frances Baard and Festival streets, Hatfield
 
 
Enquiries: Khaye Nkwanyana (Ministry Spokesperson) on 083 952 9723 or Email: MLO.Minister@daff.gov.za
 
Issued by GCIS on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
 
05 November 2018