Statistics South Africa released second-quarter figures in September which showed seasonally adjusted gross value added in the agricultural sector fell by 4.2% quarter on quarter on an annualised basis, after a 16.8% decline in the first quarter. Could this be the new normal?
We remarked that South Africa could have the biggest wheat harvest in a decade in our note on 27 August 2019.
In recent decades, donors have poured billions of dollars into boosting agricultural production in Southern Africa.
This is not a good year for South Africa’s agricultural sector.
Protectionism was once a staple of the political left.
A recent visit to Japan for the annual Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which was joined by the Citrus Growers’ Association at the behest of President Cyril Ramaphosa, provided the association with a salient opportunity to address some nagging aspects of fruit trade with that country, as well as to press the fruit industry’s interests.
