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The GAP awards, pictured, are run by The Innovation Hub, the innovation agency of the Gauteng Province, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA).

In the GAP Biosciences category Igagasi Biotech was awarded second place for its Cannconverter, which aims to use sustainable green chemistry to carry out a cost-effective enzymatic conversion of cannabis. Agang Bokamoso Farms achieved second place in GAP Green for a pipe system that keeps feeding plants even when irrigation systems fail due to power outages or pump failures.

Category winners receive a share of R3-million in seed funding to further incubate their innovation at The Innovation Hub’s Business Incubations programmes. Since 2011, the GAP has attracted more than 1 600 entries across five categories.

The photographs that appeared in the national media of the destruction caused by sinkholes in March 2023 in the Khutsong area focussed on homes and schools. However, experts from the African Centre for Disaster Studies also raised the issue of food security being affected by such natural disasters. Khutsong is in the Merafong City Local Municipality and close to the town of Carltonville, where many mines have closed down in recent years.

The Gauteng Industrial Development Zone (GIDZ) located at OR Tambo International Airport has an agro-processing plant which is intended to encourage the export of high-value goods.

The Provincial Government of Gauteng has set up Action Labs to focus on agriculture and agro-processing with a focus on land tenure issues and improving food security. Linking producers to the value chain will benefit township economies.

Gauteng’s agricultural sector is focussed on producing

Online Resources

Agricultural Research Council: www.arc.agric.za

South African Poultry Association: www.sapoultry.co.za

The Innovation Hub: www.theinnovationhub.com

Sector Insight

Agricultural concerns were winners at the annual Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) innovation competition.

vegetables. There is commercial farming in the southern sector of the province (part of South Africa’s maize triangle) and the farming of cotton, groundnuts and sorghum is undertaken in areas near Bronkhorstspruit (east) and Heidelberg (in the south).

The province is home to some of South Africa’s biggest agricultural companies, including AFGRI. Africa’s largest feedlot for cattle is located in Heidelberg: Karan Beef ’s facility can accommodate 120 000 cattle. The feedmill processes 1 400 tons per day and the associated abattoir in Balfour in neighbouring Mpumalanga sometimes deals with 1 800 head of cattle per day.

The Kanhym Agrimill in Vereeniging is one of three in the company’s portfolio, which collectively processes 250 000 tons of animal feed annually. Kanhym Estates is the largest producer of pigs in the country. There are many poultry farm and production facilities in Gauteng. Companies include Astral Foods, RCL Foods and Daybreak Farms. ■