- Title
- Rural women's participation in commercial farming in Tweespruit
- Creator
- Sebolai, Bridget
- Subject
- Rural women -- South Africa -- Free State Farmers -- Women -- South Africa -- Free State
- Subject
- Farms, Small -- Women -- South Africa -- Free State Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- South Africa -- Free State
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20466
- Identifier
- vital:29290
- Description
- This study assesses the challenges confronted by rural women participating in small-scale commercial farming in Tweespruit, a rural town of the Free State Province. A qualitative, descriptive and explorative study was used for the study, and data was collected using focus group discussions during August 2015. The study found that rural women farmers are extremely challenged, as they are inadequately equipped as farmers, and they do not receive adequate aid from government or other entities, to enable them to turn their form of farming from subsistence farming to a more beneficial, commercialized form of farming. As a result, the study made the following recommendations. Firstly, the government should intensify programmes and strategies aimed at assisting rural women involved in farming activities. Secondly, it should also assist these farmers with training, especially in modern farming technologies, so as to grow their business into a commercialized form of farming. Finally, it was recommended that government facilitates these farmers to obtain funding from foreign donors to further grow their business.
- Format
- iv, 37 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business & Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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