Ryton Estate, Mpumalanga

Ryton Estates is a joint venture between the Unlimited Group and Vutsela Investments, a BEE company owned by black professionals in Mpumalanga, Nelspruit.

Ryton Estates is a large farming operation (7000hectares) with 220 hectares of citrus, 19hectares of Avocado’s and an additional 640 hectares of open arable land with water rights.

This project is already supplying 63 permanent and a 100 contract jobs from March to September. When it is fully operational will supply permanent job opportunities to 300 people and another 1000 contract jobs. A training facility is envisaged that would ensure broad base empowerment through skills transfer development on all levels to farm workers and people interested in agricultural from the surrounding communities.

The successful execution of this project will demonstrate that partnerships between black professionals, local communities and professional commercial agricultural companies could bear fruit and will play an important role to point the direction for a more dynamic and successful model for agriculture in South Africa.

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