Wilfred Mogale’s career in farming may have got off to a rough start, but since securing a contract to supply two key retailers with vegetables his company has become a major employer in the Limpopo village of Ga-Sekgopo, where he lives.
His business sells butternut, spinach, green beans, serrano, and habanero chillis, and watermelon, as well as naartjies, oranges and avocados which he outsources.
“As a young black male from a village, it wasn’t easy to get the equipment I needed for farming, never mind market access,” Wilfred recalls, explaining that he overcame these initial stumbling blocks by connecting with more experienced farmers who were willing to share both their knowledge and their resources.
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