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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.

South Africa should return as a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY with about one million tons on higher production.

Zimbabwe experienced one of its driest seasons since the 1992/93-season, due to a strong El-Ninoinduced drought.

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.

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

Dry weather is overruling the lure of high corn prices and producers’ decisions to plant more corn in the 2015/16 MY.

In 2014 Agriculture contributed about 10% to the Gross Domestic Product in Zimbabwe.

For the 2015/16 MY, post forecasts that South Africa will return to be a net exporter of about 1.5 million tons of corn, as commercial production is expected to exceed 12.0 million tons...

Post expects that Zimbabwe’s corn imports will be significantly higher in the 2015/16 MY and may reach 900,000 tons...

South Africa’s net trade in corn is expected to decrease from 2.0 million tons to 100,000 tons in the 2014/15 MY, due to a mid-summer drought that hit the main corn producing areas.

Post kept its estimate for the area planted with corn in the 2014/15 MY unchanged at 3.1 million hectares (including subsistence farming).