The agriculture sector has raised the alarm over some of the recommendations made in the Competition Commission’s report on its fresh produce market inquiry, warning that the continued collapse in municipal infrastructure undermined access to the market.

The commission released the report this week, complete with a call for retailers to adjust the price points at which they sell fresh produce to end customers. However, specialists in the agriculture sector maintained that other challenges confronted small farmers supplying the market...

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