Eastern Cape Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR) MEC Xolile Nqatha handed over fencing to youth led projects and also launched a Learnership programme where the department will offer agricultural training to 60 young people at Xhukwane Village. The Department invested R1.6-million to the eight-month programme which will see youth being trained in agricultural activities such as crop and animal production. 

Communal farmers have also received fencing material, wool sorting equipment and a maize threshing machine to the tune of more than R2.3-milion.