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Nigeria’s wheat consumption continues to increase as prices of other major locally grown staples remain higher than those for wheat products.

South Africa serves as the perfect entry point to doing business in the Sub-Saharan African region.

For MY 2017/18, total area and production levels for West Africa are estimated to increase 2.75 percent to 2.95 million 480 lb. bales assuming good weather and strong farm gate prices.

Ethiopia recently announced a tender for 400,000 metric tons of milling wheat to be used for humanitarian assistance purposes in the country.

This is Post`s first report on the South African blueberry industry.

The Angolan Government made more foreign exchange (forex) injections available in 2017 to combat the high inflation and reduced food availability due to lack of forex since mid-2015.

The South African sugar industry is expected to recover from the previous seasons’ drought following the normal rainfall and weather patterns in the 2017/18 MY.

On July 24, 2017, the Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MWAF) announced that it had relaxed the import suspension of poultry and poultry products from South Africa....

South Africa should return to being a net exporter of corn in the 2017/18 MY and 2016/17 MY on higher production after South Africa had to import 2.2 million tons of corn in the 2015/16 MY....

Post forecasts that raisin production will increase by one percent to 62,500 MT in the 2017/18 MY, from 62,000 MT in the 2016/17 MY, based on the increase in area planted....