End poverty together.

Why my friends do not want to be farmers

Elly man
South Africa team
Activista blogger

I am Loyiso Zweni, an Activista Blogger from South Africa, working with youg people mainly on development programmes.

I'm glad to be one of  the Activista Bloggers, so that I could share ideas and experiences with the people around the world.

Ten years ago back in my village life was nothing without farming activities and it could not make sense if a young person didn't have a plot of land to plant - if not maize and beans it would  be green vegetables at least for family consumption, but  life  has changed recently and agriculture is now for old women and men whose power has no much contributions, the question is what  are the reasons  for this....?? And the first and simple  answer is the world market  economy, which does not care for the small scale farmers but always hopes to make profits through multinational corporations.

 

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