Small-scale and emerging cotton farmers in Matlerekeng, Limpopo, and Nkomazi, Mpumalanga, are embracing technology after receiving two cotton baler machines, signaling the end of manual cotton baling.

In the past, the farmers used bags and their feet to bale the cotton. But with the intervention of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and its entity, the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), the farmers received two balers last week.