Agricultural Research Council
Your clientele, counted
Every farmer on WeFarmSA is a candidate for an ARC programme — a communal herd for Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo, a hectare of maize for a Grain Crops cultivar, a soil sample for Soil, Climate and Water. This is that base, with the seed and seedling demand it implies and the month it has to be ready.
Open needs and supply — what each area needs, and when it must be suppliedOpen the request to ARC — the live register, as a supply listFarmers on the register
6.0K
Hectares captured
1.1M
Livestock head
0
Districts
14
Certified seed implied
4.5M kg
Seedlings implied
2161.4M
Showing the most recent 6.0K records. The register is larger — totals here size the demand, they are not the full national count.
Matched means a farmer names a commodity or animal type inside that programme's scope. Possible covers services that apply to any farm — soil analysis, plant health — and is shown separately because overstating a clientele is the fastest way to lose trust in the numbers.
| ARC programme | Division | Matched farmers | Hectares | Head | Districts | Possible |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Grain cultivar evaluation and certified seed Locally bred and evaluated cultivars for maize, sorghum, dry beans, soybeans, groundnuts and sunflower — a known cultivar rather than unidentified seed. | ARC-GC | 1.3K | 198.8K | — | 7 | — |
Vegetable cultivars and planting material Vegetable cultivars and seed — the source for a nursery raising seedlings to a known variety. | ARC-VIMP | 732 | 83.1K | — | 11 | — |
Small grain cultivars Wheat, barley and oat cultivars developed and evaluated for South African conditions. | ARC-SG | 1 | 4 | — | 1 | — |
Soil, climate and water analysis Soil analysis and land capability assessment — what an offtaker’s land prescription has to be matched against. | ARC-SCW | 0 | — | — | — | 6.0K |
Plant health diagnostics Pest and disease identification and biocontrol advice. | ARC-PHP | 0 | — | — | — | 6.0K |
Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo (Cattle Betterment Programme) Genetics, herd management and traceability support for communal and smallholder cattle herds, in terms of the Animal Improvement Act 62 of 1998. | ARC-AP | 0 | — | — | — | — |
Artificial insemination and superior genetics Access to proven sire semen so a farmer improves growth, milk yield and carcass quality without buying a bull. | ARC-AP | 0 | — | — | — | — |
Beef improvement scheme (performance recording) Production record keeping, calf weighing and growth recording — the data a farmer needs before genetics can be improved. | ARC-AP | 0 | — | — | — | — |
Milk recording and dairy genetic evaluation Genetic evaluation for the Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein and Jersey breeds through the Quantitative Genetics division. | ARC-AP | 0 | — | — | — | — |
Subtropical crop propagation material Propagation material and cultivar advice for subtropical fruit and nuts. | ARC-TSC | 0 | — | — | — | — |
A provincial department that wants to buy a service for its farmers can be quoted from these counts — 2 000 herds on Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo, for instance. The per-farmer service fee has to come from the ARC, so the rand figure is deliberately not guessed here.
Grain cultivar evaluation and certified seed
1.3K
farmers across 1 province · Eastern Cape
Vegetable cultivars and planting material
732
farmers across 2 provinces · Eastern Cape, Gauteng
Small grain cultivars
1
farmers across 1 province · Eastern Cape