The Province is endowed with abundant agricultural resources and it is one of the country's prime agricultural regions noted for the production of livestock, fruits and vegetables, cereals and tea!
To promote economic growth and food security through sustainable agricultural and entrepreneurship development.
United, prosperous and sustainable agricultural sector.
The Province is endowed with abundant agricultural resources and it is one of the country's prime agricultural regions noted
for the production of livestock, fruits and vegetables, cereals and tea!
Limpopo is strategically located near to the economic heartland of South Africa (Johannesburg is 300km from Polokwane), and on the N1 highway connecting South Africa to its neighbours in the Southern African Development Community to the north through Zimbabwe. The total land area of the province is 11,960,600 hectares of which 88,2 % (10,548,290 ha) constitute farmland.
Of the total farmland, 14,7 and 14% constitutes potential arable land in developing agriculture in the former homeland and commercial agriculture respectively.Dry land cultivation on a commercial basis is only possible on the Springbok flats. Irrigate farming is predominant in the province.With 5,7 million residents, Limpopo accounted for 10% of South Africa’s population in 2014/2015, it contributed just 7% of the GDP.
In 2014 – the latest available data – the real economy (represented by agriculture, mining, manufacturing and construction) made up 33% of Limpopo’s output.Limpopo is very rich in terms of Agriculture. Vast quantities of fruit and vegetables are exported from the province. Almost every kind of subtropical fruit flourishes in the eastern half of the province.
Abundant fields of avocados, mangos, paw-paws, litchis and tomatoes stretch as far as the eye can see. Cotton and potatoes are other major products, while citrus, tea and timber plantations are prevalent in the central and northern areas. Livestock raring and hunting are carried out in the drier western and northern regions.
