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Dube TradePort is poised to produce up to 5 million plantlets a year, for local farmers and to export around the world

Dube TradePort is poised to produce up to 5 million plantlets a year, for local farmers and to export around the world

Date: 2014-09-19
MEC FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM OPENS FUTURE FARMING FACILITIES AT DUBE TRADEPORT

A new agricultural facility at Dube TradePort, outside Durban, is poised to produce more than 3 million plantlets a year, expanding to 5 million in future, and is set for the export of young plants across the world and the supply of material for local farmers, whilst the introduction of a second resource, a high-care fresh produce value adding distribution centre, becomes the first of its kind in KwaZulu-Natal.

Speaking at the official opening of the two new centres of excellence within Dube TradePort's future farming platform, Dube AgriZone, Mr Michael Mabuyakhulu, MEC for Economic Development and Tourism, said: "Agriculture has always been a key component of KwaZulu-Natal's economic mix and with the growing need to ensure continued food security in South Africa, this is a sector which must be regarded as being of extreme importance going forward."

 Opening the vital new Dube AgriZone components, Farmwise Packhouse and Distribution Centre, a fresh produce value adding distribution facility, and Dube AgriLab, an ultra-modern plant tissue culture laboratory, Mr Mabuyakhulu said KwaZulu-Natal's agricultural sector should embrace advanced farming methods in order to ensure competitiveness and to meet and exceed future produce demands.

Dube AgriZone provides the largest climate-controlled growing area under glass in Africa and has been especially developed to promote agricultural products with a short shelf-life and which may require being flown immediately to a range of market destinations. The two new facilities complete the first phase of Dube AgriZone's development, creating South Africa's most technologically advanced farming area.