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On October 21, 2016, South Africa published the final list of agricultural products and beer names protected under the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement...

The current dry, hot weather conditions and lower dam levels is expected to affect the flowering of citrus trees, mainly in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga region, resulting in a five percent decrease...

On July, 26, 2016, The President of Cote d’Ivoire announced the implementation of the national biosafety law adopted by the parliament on July 1, 2016.

South Africa is the largest food service market in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a large and highly competitive hospitality industry. Hospitality and tourism are fast-growing sectors...

On December 5, 2016, the Registrar of the GMO Act informed stakeholders that all corn Genetically Engineered (GE) events that have been causing asynchrony with the United States have been approved...

Although the production area of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in South Africa decreased in 2015 to approximately 2.3 million hectares, from 2.9 million hectares in 2014, due to a severe drought...

MY 2016/17 seed cotton production from the selected West African countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Chad, and Senegal) could reach 1.9 million tons (3.6 million bales)...

Post forecasts that the deciduous fruit sector will continue to experience growth based on the increases in investment and area planted being driven by the weak rand and increases in export revenue.

Under normal climatic conditions and taking into account the subsistence farming sector, South Africa’s total corn crop for the 2016/17 MY could reach 12.8 million tons.

The Agricultural Economic Fact Sheet for South Africa has been updated to include calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016 (estimate). South Africa is battling one of the worst droughts ever recorded...

Post forecasts that the South African sugar cane crop will remain flat at 14.9 MMT in the 2016/17 MY as a result of the prevailing drought conditions.

Post forecasts that South Africa’s broiler meat imports will increase by eight percent in 2017 to 560,000 tons...