WANDILE SIHLOBO: Record agricultural exports point to a resilient sector
The sector must focus on maintaining current export markets and broadening new ones
07 March 2025 - 14:12
For a sector some have portrayed as being under siege, the trade figures for 2024 and the years before may surprise some. SA’s agricultural sector remains resilient, with no direct policy threats.
The challenges the sector faced in 2024 related largely to the environment and animal health, not politics — as we see at the start of 2025 through statements of imaginary land grabs. We faced the midsummer drought that weighed negatively on grain production and foot-and-mouth disease in cattle...
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