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cotton for the past 25 years, is an integrated a 500% increase in hectares of cotton planted,
pest management supporter and takes part in and a whopping 800% increase in local cotton
community safety strategies. production. The country’s cotton farmers and
The award for Commercial Cotton Producer: ginners have committed more than R500 million
Irrigation went to Johan Buitendag from in private investment while the cotton value
Koedoeskop Gin, Limpopo. He has been plan t - chain currently employs about 50 000 people.
ing cotton for almost five
years, is BCI-compliant and
supports integrated pest man- Northern Cape recipients: Richard and Bea
age ment production methods. Godfree-Thom, Louis and Marinda Olivier,
Charel and Coreen Wolhuter, Wilber Rudman,
Buitendag promotes innovative Cisna and Jozeph du Plessis.
technologies and is currently
investigating new sustainable
farming methods.
The South African cotton
industry has achieved major
successes in the past few years.
Industry-wide, there has been

Limpopo recipients: Janneman
and Liesel Bronkhorst, Joseph and
Barbara Kempen, Andries and
Francis Kruger, Jannie
Terblanche, Frans Malela, Chanté
and Jan Lodewyk Young.

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