A total of 77 unemployed agricultural graduates was today welcomed into the agricultural sector by the MEC responsible for the department Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform in the Northern Cape, Mase Manopole. The 77 Unemployed Graduates are expected to be placed at various sectors of agriculture, forestry and fisheries across the five districts in the province with the aim to reduce the high youth unemployment rate. The department states that this is the 3rd cohort of graduates since the programme started in 2018. Bongani Silingile, Media Liaison Officer in the office of the mec says that the initiative is a collaboration between the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform and Commodity Organisations/farms. The initiative according to Silingile speaks to the National Development Plan (NDP) and the National Youth Policy (NYP).

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