Stes de Necker's - Arpm, Bloemfontein

Through a combination of skills, experience and expertise, a modern co-operative farming system was developed which has the potential to bring the relevant hectares back into active production, through an economic and sustainable process. Farming operations after 1994, have become obsolete and uneconomical. Pre 1994, substantial returns were produced on these lands with the help of the highly subsidized programmes of the then Bophuthatswana Government. This vast potential could, with the necessary management in best practice methodologies, again be harnessed into food production, effectively reducing the previously mentioned decline. It is our firm belief that taking into account the numerous problems currently experienced with the Government’s Land Reform Policy and further problems vested within the agricultural sector in general, the ARPM Model is the only practical and workable model that can achieve the much needed development in this sector of the economy.

• We serve the whole of South Africa. Current operations are focused primarily on the Thaba Nchu/Tweespruit area in the Eastern Freestate but soon these operations will be expanded to the Qwa Qwa Region of the Eastern Free State. Negotiations to assist farmers in the Limpopo area are in an advanced stage and future expansion to this area will take place in the near future.