NUUS | NEWS
Tours reshape perspectives
on the Agri-Industry
Deur Senwes Scenario Span
High School visits the largest silo in
the Southern Hemisphere
The agricultural sector has, in the past,
been shunned and categorized as one of
the least important careers to pursue. But
that’s about to change!
The Curro Klerksdorp High School
grade 10 and 11 consumer studies
group recently took a tour to the Senwes
Grainlink Wesselsbron Silo, which is “the
largest silo in the Southern Hemisphere”.
Project manager at the silo, Lodrick
Barnard, started with an astonishing fact:
“This silo can take up to 280 000 tons of
grain”. He shared with them the ins and
outs, from the cleaning to the loading of
grain, of which “up to 7 000 tons are taken
in daily. The grading process, insects that
affect the grain and pesticides to destroy
them.
The group also visited the Greenpak
processing facility where carrots are
cleaned, graded and packaged before
being supplied to Woolworths Food
branches. This facility, situated about
30 kilometres from the Greenpak farm in
Bothaville, is owned by Senwes director
Nico Liebenberg, and all 600 hectares
of land are utilised to cultivate carrots,
butternuts and pumpkins. Consumer
studies HOD at the school, Karen Kade
said, “It is important to encourage young
learners to be interested in farming
because it is middle point of where we get
our sustenance from”. Factory manager,
Elize du Preez, pointed out that Greenpak
is the sole supplier of carrots to all
Woolworths branches in South Africa. This
showed them that the agricultural sector
is much more than just farming, it is also
about growing the economy, feeding the
world and preserving the soil in which our
food grows.
Selfs besigheidslui se perspektiewe
word verander
Die Wesselsbron silo en die Hinterlandtak
op die dorp het onlangs ook gasheer
gespeel vir ‘n geselskap van Nedbank.
Senior silobestuurder Lodrick Barnard het
die geselskap op ‘n interessante toer deur
die silokompleks geneem en is bygestaan
deur silobestuurder Johan Rheeder. Een
besoeker, Salim Kadoo, was verstom
oor wat alles agter die skerms gebeur
rakende graanhantering by ‘n silo. “Dit
was my heel eerste keer wat ek ‘n silo
besoek het. Van buite sien jy net die buise
en weet stadsjapies soos ek nie van die
infrastruktuur binne nie.” Barnard het
genoem dat hierdie besoekers, en veral
buitelandse besoekers, baie beïndruk is
met die silokompleks, met Rheeder wat
beaam het dat besoeke ten doel het om
die werksaamhede en die interessanthede
aan hulle oor te dra - soos dat die heel
eerste deel van die Wesselsbron silo
reeds 53 jaar gelede in 1966 geopen
is. Hinterland takbestuurder Johnny
Bezuidenhout het die groep ook ingelig
rakende die tak en landboubesigheid op
die dorp. Hierdie toer het deel uitgemaak
van besoeke deur besigheidslui, skole en
ander instansies.
The Curro Klerksdorp High School
grade 10 and 11 consumer studies
group took a tour to the Senwes
Grainlink Wesselsbron Silo.
Nedbank se besoek aan die
Senwes Grainlink Wesselsbron
silo! Hier Lodrick Barnard (Senior
Silobestuurder by Senwes Grainlink
silo in Wesselsbron), Wikus Grobler
(Senwes: Groepbestuurder - Finansies
en Tesourie), Corné Kruger (Senwes:
Groep Hoof Finansiële Beampte),
John Hudson (Nedbank: Nasionale
Hoof - Landbou), Salim Kadoo
(Nedbank: Provinsiale Algemene
Bestuurder), Tabitha Strydom (Senwes:
Groep Tesourie) en Herman De Kock
(Nedbank: Uitvoerende Hoof - Verkope
en Dienste).
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