Boost for sugar cane farmers

FOR generations, Indian farmers have toiled the land on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal, growing and cultivating sugar cane for the masses.

Now, 160 years later, farmers have realised there is more to their land than just sugar cane.

They have now decided to expand by joining forces with government in a newly-launched R5.6 billion Greater Inanda Land-Use Diversification Programme.

The programme, officially launched last Wednesday in Verulam, will help sugar cane and vegetable farmers open their land to other avenues of business such as agro-processing,