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The impact of the drought and hail damage is anticipated to have a greater effect in the production areas of Limpopo resulting in decreases in the 2015/16 MY production of grapefruit and oranges.

Post forecasts that the area under cotton production in Zimbabwe will increase, under normal climatic conditions, to about 300,000 hectares and production will recover to around 210,000 MT

Post estimates that the 2015/16 MY production of apples and pears will increase by about one percent to 930,000 MT and 410,000 MT, respectively...

Post forecasts that sugar cane production in Zimbabwe will decrease by five percent to 3,180 Million MT in the 2016/17 MY.

The impact of the 2015 drought is expected to continue in the 2016/17 MY.

Tralac held its annual conference in Swakopmund, Namibia on April 7 – 8, 2016. The conference highlighted the importance and challenges for rules based governance, and growing Intra-Africa Trade.

Due to an extreme drought oilseed production in South Africa is expected to decrease by 20 percent in the 2015/16 MY to 1.4 million tons.

South Africa should return to be a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY of about 1.0 million tons on higher production.

This is the first FAIRS - Certification Report for South Africa. The report lists major certificates and permits required to export food and agricultural products to South Africa.

South Africa is battling one of the worst droughts ever recorded limiting the production of grains.

All the sections of the Report except sections VIII (Import Procedures) and Section IX (Other Certification and testing requirements) have been updated based on recent regulation amendments...

While South Africa produces a variety of high-quality agricultural products for export, the country continues to offer opportunities for imports of both consumer and processed fruits and vegetables.