The board members of Potatoes SA have made a commitment to establish at least six sustainable small commercial black potato growers per year, to subsidise potato seed for these projects, and to create access to finance for the new growers. It would also be involved in the mechanisation of small projects and would focus largely on technical support footprint to mitigate production risk. However, in order to achieve this, it needed access to a broader range of more accurate data about available resources, access to land, water and finance, farmer and market development, partnerships, and an integrated centre of excellence between industry bodies for generic transformation objectives.