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South Africa will import around 10,000 MT of peanuts in the 2014/15 MY, as an 11 decrease in peanut production is expected due to a mid-summer drought that hit the summer rainfall production areas.

Due to lower than forecast production in the first 6 months and expectations for a return to slightly above trend yields for the remainder of 2014/15, palm oil output is forecast at 19.5 million tons.

The impact of the 2014/15 MY drought in the sugar industry is expected to continue in the 2015/16 MY.

With the recently successful conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations with the European Union (EU), Swaziland maintained its preferential market access to Europe.

Post estimates U.S. 2015/16 wheat exports to Nigeria at 2.3 million tons, a 17 percent decrease largely due to existing import levies.

Most C3+2 countries [1] experienced a bad rainy season with delayed and intermittent rains.

On the margins of the January 2015 African Union summit, the AU launched the Implementation Strategy & Roadmap to achieve the 2025 vision on the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts an increase in sugar consumption and no change in production in the marketing year (MY) 2015/2016.

Under USDA’s Food for Progress Program, USDA and ACDI/VOCA are working together to support the development of Ethiopia’s livestock feed sector.

Ethiopia charges up to five separate taxes on imported goods. This report summarizes how these taxes are applied and calculated for imported food and agricultural commodities.

Since 2013, chicken meat prices in South Africa increased by 13 percent and in the past year by more than eight percent, as increased import tariffs of chicken meat escalate local prices.

South African Poultry Association implies that U.S. poultry producers’ access to the South African chicken market would destroy the local industry and cost thousands of jobs.