2021 promises to be another good year for South Africa’s agricultural sector, at least from a production front.

Although South Africa's agricultural economy performed robustly in 2020, possibly grew by between 10-13%, according to our and Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy estimates, employment numbers remain disappointing.

The week ahead brings a flurry of critical data on the South African agricultural sector.

South Africa has been fortunate to have sufficient food supplies since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

IT IS NOW common knowledge that the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted agricultural and food supply chains in unprecedented ways, and the results continue to be experienced in developed and developing economies.

 We have been writing for a while about South Africa's agricultural performance in 2020, but with full-year trade data now available, we felt compelled to revisit the subject. South Africa's agricultural exports amounted to US$10,2 billion in 2020, which is a 3% increase from the previous year.