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Syngenta Grain Academy a growing block for young Mpumalanga farmer

───   CHRISTAL-LIZE MULLER 07:16 Tue, 11 Jun 2019

Syngenta Grain Academy a growing block for young Mpumalanga farmer | News Article
Marcel Hinze from Mpumalanga PHOTO: OFM News

A young farmer from the Piet Retief area in Mpumalanga, Marcel Hinze, believes firmly the Syngenta Grain Academy, in collaboration with Grain SA and the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Business School, was a growing block for him.


The future looks bright. Marcel Hinze was one of the graduates who completed the academy’s leadership programme this year. A total of 24 young farmers, including other role players in the sector, were rewarded for the hard work at a graduation ceremony on Friday at the UFS’ Bloemfontein campus.  

Part of this event included presentations by small groups to a panel of experts about urgent issues in the agriculture industry.

Hinze was in the group that had to give a presentation about racial polarisation that increases the risk of race-based conflict in South Africa and affects relationships between races on farms and in farming communities.

OFM News Christal-Lize Muller spoke to Hinze…



That was Marcel Hinze from the Piet Retief area in Mpumalanga who completed the leadership programme of the Syngenta Grain Academy.

Listen to Gerben van Niekerk on Before Dawn weekdays between 05:00 and 06:00. Call Christal-Lize Muller with your agriculture news at (051) 5050-953 or send her an email to cmuller@centralmediagroup.co.za.


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