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NEW ECONOMIST FOR THE Mario Botha.
COTTON INDUSTRY
Mario Botha is the new agricultural economist
at Cotton SA. He previously worked for Santam
Agriculture in the crop insurance division. He was the
relationship manager for the Free State and certain
areas in the Eastern Cape. Mario has a BCom degree
in agricultural economics (University of Pretoria)
and a business management degree (Stellenbosch
University), and he intends furthering his studies
in future. He has a passion for agriculture and the
development thereof and is looking forward to
building his career at Cotton SA.
Mario is a family man, a fitness enthusiast and an
upcoming businessman. His hobbies are driving off-
road trails, motorcycling and travelling. He can be
contacted at mario@cottonsa.org.za.

AGRISETA TAKES ACTION
Tertius Schoeman from Cotton SA attended a one-day workshop of the Fibre Sub-Sector Committee
(SSC) facilitated by AgriSETA in Port Elizabeth on 12 September 2019. The Fibre SSC deals with
the commodities cotton, wool and mohair. Urgent attention was given to the challenges that the
three commodities present in the working
relationship with AgriSETA, pertaining to
training content, payments and allocation of
funding. Mrs N. Sibia from AgriSETA took
immediate action and before the end of the
meeting solutions were already on the table. The
structure of the commodities and the national
arrangement of where all the commodities will
slot in were discussed and the Fibre SSC made
recommendations in this regard.

From left to right: Leon de Beer, National Wool Growers’
Association; C Warren, BKB; A Jordan, OVK; N Sibia,
AgriSETA; and Tertius Schoeman, Cotton SA.

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