outgrower
Noun
Meaning
outgrower (plural outgrowers)
(chiefly Africa) A farmer who undertakes to supply a buyer with crops or livestock at some future time and meeting certain requirements; in return, the buyer agrees to make the purchase (perhaps at a pre-agreed price) and may provide other support.
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Examples
NRZ public relations manager, Nyasha Maravanyika said the European Union (EU) had partly funded the project providing a $7,5 million grant through Canelands Trust, an organisation that helps outgrower sugarcane farmers in the Lowveld.
Tea prices are beginning to firm internationally but this is only felt by large-scale producers like estates, which leaves the new farmers most of whom are in outgrower schemes still waiting on the fringes to get a bite of the cherry.
The farms at the farm bloc are expected to have an outgrower scheme.