John Deere Africa Middle East | Eastern Cape Farmers Day

25 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "John Deere Africa Middle East | Eastern Cape Farmers Day" containing a multi-speaker discussion from June 25, 2023, focused on agricultural training and empowerment, particularly highlighting the involvement of women and the impact of tractor operator training on farming productivity in the Eastern Cape region. The speakers share experiences about training benefits, community engagement, and agricultural achievements using John Deere equipment.

It's just exciting to see you having success, and we're proud to be a part of that. So thank you for that opportunity.
She says one of the projects, as someone working in the communities, is to say, well, how can she then enhance other young people who are women, to be part of the work that she does? The mere fact of just exposure is creating a lot of participation and interest from young women, which is a positive that she sees.
After we had our training as the tractor operators, when that training came, we already transferred the. The knowledge or information, if I may put it that way, to our tractor drivers. So that really helped us a lot. But now you can see a difference now that we have received that training and they also receive the training after us.
So all these barriers that, you know, investors are always asking questions about, it's happening. And fortunately, the results are here to see. So are we doing something right? Well, look for yourself.
Well, lens that were not supposed to have been done by me, but because of the. The strength of the John Deere tractors, they were then done by us and we did these lands. And because you are looking at 365 hectares here of both oats and maize that are found in this lot of land. So we did this within a week. And I'd also like to say to others, if you're not a jointier contractor, come to joint here. What are you waiting for? Reach for the top, for the bottoms of a crowded.