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South Africa has to import rice to meet local demand as rice production is insignificant in the country. As a result, any trade restrictions introduced by exporter countries, due to COVID-19...

Post forecasts market year (MY) 2020/21 cotton fiber production at a record for a third consecutive year, at 1.0 million bales (480 lb.).

South Africa with its well-developed business market, serves at a gate way to Sub-Saharan African markets.

Ghana’s seed industry is in its infancy. Corn and rice form about 70 percent of the sales of certified seed in Ghana.

Namibia is the first African country to gain market access to export beef to the United States after 18 years of trade negotiations between the two countries.

In the 2020/21 MY, Post forecasts that South Africa's oilseed meal imports will drop by 8 percent to 550,000 tons and oilseed oil imports will decline by 5 percent to less than 400,000 tons...

On March 23, 2020, the President of South Africa announced that starting from March 26 2020, South Africa would enter into a 21-day lockdown until April 16, 2020.

Marketing year (MY) 2020/21 (August to July) area for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal is forecast to increase three percent to 1.37 million hectares (HA) compared to the previous year...

Post predicts Ghana’s MY 2020/21 wheat and rice imports at 990,000 and 950,000 metric tons (MT), respectively.

Currently there are no USDA-endorsed trade shows planned in South Africa in 2020.

On April 1, the Angolan government reduced the number of Ministries from 28 to 21 and merged some of them...

MY 2020/21 wheat production is forecast to reach a record five million metric tons, while corn is projected to reach 8.6 million metric tons due to government in supplied inputs...