Kayalethu Sotsha

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  • Kayalethu Sotsha's details
    • Country: South Africa
    • Region: Southern Africa
    • Studies: Senior economist
    • University: Markets and Economic Research Centre (MERC)
  • Kayalethu Sotsha's presentations
    • Factors influencing communal livestock farmers’ participation into the National Red Meat Development Programme (NRMDP) in South Africa: the case of the Eastern Cape Province

  Kayalethu Sotsha is a senior economist at the National Agricultural Marketing Council under the Markets and Economic Research Centre (MERC). His work focuses more on research related to smallholder farmers’ market access. He is also undertaking his Ph.D. at Stellenbosch University. His research focuses on the willingness of arable farming households to participate in land reform in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. He earned his Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Fort Hare University, where he started as an undergraduate student in the same subject in 2007. He is a hard-working individual committed to rural development, in part because of his experience growing up in Lusikisiki district, one of the most impoverished areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.