Education

The Grootfontein College of Agriculture is the training division of the larger Grootfontein Agricultural Development Institute (GADI).

The mission of the Grootfontein College of Agriculture is to provide vocational agricultural training in order to prepare students for a career in farming and related occupational fields with special emphasis on small stock production management in the extensive small stock farming areas.

The College aims to:

• Provide formal vocational training in agriculture in the Higher Education band of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in order to produce suitably qualified and equipped manpower in accordance with requirements for farming and agricultural development work in the technical occupational divisions with special emphasis on the extensive small stock farming areas;
• Provide appropriate training programs to satisfy the farming sector for which training is intended, educationists and development agencies;
• Provide formal and informal training in the Further Education and Training band of the NQF to meet the training needs of the farming communities, Land Reform beneficiaries and development agencies;
• Identify the need for training at ground level and to provide custom-designed extra-curricular courses for special interest groups;
• Provide necessary institutional, infrastructure, financial and administrative support services to effectively and efficiently support teaching and learning.

More detail about specific courses can be obtained on the website of GADI: http://gadi.agric.za