Role of SAMGA’s technical coordinator:
SAMGA’s key focus is to unlock the potential of the mango industry. Providing a solid foundation through great leadership, driven quality, beneficial information, innovative research and optimising markets.
SAMGA exist to do things that individual mango growers are not able to do on their own. Subtrop is the organisation that provides services to SAMGA members according to the objectives determined by the SAMGA board.
Subtrop also provides services to the SA Avocado and Litchi Growers’ Association. In the past, Subtrop had extension officers that spent most of their time doing farm visits and providing recommendations to growers. Today, many mango growers make use of specialist consultants and do not have a need for traditional extension officers. Therefore the SAMGA technical coordinator employed by Subtrop now play a different role. Their primary function is to work with the SAMGA area committees, as well as growers in the various regions to determine the factors that limit- or are a threat to production, and then to draw up programmes to address those factors.
The SAMGA technical coordinator have key responsibilities such as:
