For the last few decades a large number of industries in the agricultural sector have been charging statutory levies imposed on each unit of product along the chain between producer and consumer. These levies, charged as a percentage of cost, are borne by the consumer. They were intended to finance predetermined functions like transformation, research, export initiatives, product development and others.
These levies are promulgated under the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act and efficiently administered by the National Agricultural Marketing Council. Some of the industries involved are fruit, milk, meat, maize, cereal, sorghum, potatoes, nuts, wine and cotton. I believe that close to 80% of agricultural products are part of the levy programme...
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