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South Africa’s agriculture and agribusiness sectors have a broader responsibility for food security beyond our borders. Southern Africa leans heavily on South Africa for food supplies. This is clear from the observation of South Africa’s agricultural exports. The country exported about $13.2bn of agricultural and processed food products in 2023. Nearly 40% of these exports were for Africa.Notably, roughly 90c in every dollar of South Africa’s agricultural exports to the continent is from Southern Africa. Grains, fruits, vegetables and selected beverages are typically high on South Africa’s list of agriculture and food exports to Southern Africa. Not all countries rely equally on South Africa’s agriculture and food industry. There are seven dominant countries — Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Zambia — which accounted for 81% of South Africa’s agricultural exports to the continent in 2023. In fact, over the past five years, these countries have accounted, on average, for 80% of South Africa’s agricultural exports to the continent a year.

President Cyril Rampahosa het in sy weeklikse nuusbrief geskryf, dat sneltreine – om die lang afstande tussen Suid-Afrika se stede vinniger af te lê – steeds deel is van die regering se planne vir openbare vervoer. Volgens Ramaphosa word daar vordering gemaak om die land se spoornetwerk reg te ruk om dit weer die ruggraat van die vervoer van mense en goedere in die land te maak. Die president meen doeltreffende, veilige en bekostigbare vervoer van mense en goedere is noodsaaklik om die regering van nasionale eenheid se topprioriteite van ekonomiese groei en werkskepping te verwesenlik. Ander RNE-topprioriteite is glo om armoede te verminder, die hoë lewenskoste te takel en om ’n bekwame ontwikkelingstaat te bou.

“The Western Cape government’s growth for jobs strategy sets out our ambitious plan to grow the Western Cape economy by 5% annually by 2035. We aim to triple the value of the province’s exports of goods and services (inclusive of tourism) by 2035 to R450bn. “To achieve this, we need an efficient port. Productivity at the port of Cape Town must significantly improve in the lead-up to the upcoming fruit export season if we are to achieve this goal,” Meyer said in a statement.  He said he was told by Two-a-Day (TAD) fruit company’s MD Attie van Zyl that the estimated total cost of inefficiencies at the port to the provincial apple and pear industry was R999m annually. “Our apple and pear growers are directly impacted. The total estimated cost of a dysfunctional port per hectare for our farmers is R26,000 per hectare,” Van Zyl told Meyer. He told Business Day that that was the cost for 2024. Any recent improvement in the port’s performance would not have affected this figure as 90% of exports had already taken place, he said.

Voorspellings dui daarop dat reën nog verskeie kere in die volgende drie tot vier weke oor dele van die winterreënstreek kan voorkom. Hoewel die neerslae lig behoort te wees, kan dié toestande oestyd bemoeilik en skade veroorsaak aan graan wat nou oesgereed is. “Ligte neerslae van minder as 5 mm per keer word oor die sentrale tot suidwestelike dele van die winterreëngebied verwag teen 4 en 5 November, 7 en 8 November, 12 en 13, asook 23 en 24 November,” sê Johan van den Berg, onafhanklike landbouweerkundige. “Swaarder neerslae kan voorkom oor die Rûens, veral teen 4 en 5 November en 12 en 13 November. Redelik bewolkte tot gedeeltelik bewolkte toestande word verwag wat die oesproses baie gaan bemoeilik en tot graadverliese kan lei.”  Volgens Van den Berg het dit baie kol-kol gereën en reënsyfers is nie noodwendig ’n aanduiding van ’n hele distrik of groter gebiede se neerslae nie.  “As in ag geneem word dat die optimale planttyd vir somergewasse in dié gebiede in die laaste helfte van November ten einde loop, is dit duidelik dat tyd nou ’n belangrike faktor is.”

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After a challenging 2023-24 summer crop season, which saw South Africa's grains and oilseeds production falling by 24% year-on-year to 15,39 million tonnes, the recovery period may be in sight. The data released by the Crop Estimates Committee this afternoon shows that South African farmers intend to plant 4,47 million hectares of summer grains and oilseeds in the 2024-25 season. This is up mildly by 1% from the previous season. The planting intentions for white maize are at 1,58 million hectares (up 1% y/y), and yellow maize is at 1,06 million hectares (down 2% y/y). The overall maize planting intentions are at 2,64 million hectares (up 0,2% y/y), which aligns with the five-year average area. The planting intentions for soybeans are at 1,2 million hectares  (up by 0,2%), the largest area on record. The sunflower seed planting intention is 540k hectares (up 2,1% y/y), slightly below the average planting of 554k hectares. The planting intentions for groundnuts are 40k hectares (down 2,9% y/y), sorghum at 54k hectares (up 28% y/y), and dry beans at 45k hectares (up 14% y/y).

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In 2022, six of South Africa's nine provinces reported foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. This was the first time in the country's history that the disease had spread this wide. The challenging place the country found itself in prompted the government and industry stakeholders to increase their focus on strengthening farm biosecurity controls and surveillance. Other interventions that are still underway include efforts to improve South Africa's veterinary and related support services (mainly the laboratories) that deal with vaccine production needs. READ MORE 

USDA forecasts all food costs this year will rise 2.3%, up from 2.2% in September, with grocery prices expected to climb by 1.2%, up from 1.1% last month. Restaurant prices are still forecast to rise 4.1%. For 2025, food costs are projected to increase 2.4%, with expected rises of 1.6% for grocery prices and 3.4% for restaurant prices. Beef prices are expected to rise 5.5% this year and 2.2% in 2025.  READ MORE 

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