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The South African retail food sector is strong, despite the development of the COVID-19 crisis and the March 2020 national lockdown.

The growth of South African tree nut production is expected to continue in the 2019/20 MY, based on the increase in area planted as the industry responds to increasing demand from export markets...

Over the past decade, sorghum production in South Africa decreased dramatically as producers preferred to plant more profitable crops, like corn and oilseeds.

The South Africa Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development announced an outbreak of African Swine Fever in a small scale setting in the Eastern Cape Province.

The production of South African citrus, mainly soft citrus, lemons and limes is expected to continue its strong growth in the 2019/20 Marketing Year (MY), based on the increase in area planted...

As a result of the historically high corn crop, South Africa returned to being a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY....

South Africa announced a new wheat import tariff of R379.34 per ton on September 8, 2017.

Post estimates that South African pork imports will increase marginally by about 2.5 percent annually, reaching about 32,000 tons cwe in 2017 and 33,000 tons cwe in 2018.