Well, South Africa’s agricultural gross value-added didn’t quite expand by the same magnitude that I had expected but was nonetheless in a similar trend.

Themed "Delivering Value across Palm Oil & Rubber Supply Chain” the conference aims to highlight these key issues:

The current view of poultry manure is that it is a waste stream with little value other than for application on agricultural land, as feed for livestock, or incineration for heating.

Attach is a full Submission to the Parliamentary Constitutional Review Committee Fanie Brink - Independent Agricultural Economist
MAY 2018

Fanie Brink is an independent agricultural economist, advisor and mentor with more than 40 years of experience in the agricultural industry in South Africa. He was for almost 20 years a Senior Agricultural Economist with Agri SA and Deputy General Manager: Research and Development
with Grain South Africa. He was most of his career directly involved in the profitability and sustainability of grain and oilseeds production, food security and the development of a biofuels strategy of the government. He is also a member of a group of 30 economists in the country who
evaluate and predict the state of the economy in South Africa on a monthly basis for the Business School of the University of Stellenbosch. He obtained a BSc-Agric degree from the University of the Free State in 1974 and a MSc-Agric degree from the University of Pretoria in 1978. He is still very much involved in the agriculture as an agricultural economist, adviser and mentor.