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Farmers in the Garden Route are among more than a thousand beneficiaries of drought relief of over R12 million rand.
Western Cape Agriculture MEC, Ivan Meyer, says farmers in the drought-stricken areas of Central Karoo and the West Coast Districts also benefitted.
He says based on the latest bi-annual veld assessment completed in March, the Department has categorised agricultural land as critical or extremely critical in parts of the Central Karoo, Garden Route and West Coast Districts.
Meyer has encouraged farmers to adopt more sustainable farming practices, saying at least three years of above-average rainfall is needed to recover from the devastating drought.
