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The craft beer market in South Africa is very small in comparison to the United States. However, the growing popularity of craft beer in South Africa, may present opportunities....

The Office of Agriculture Affairs forecasts refined sugar production in MY2019/20 to increase by approximately 14 percent or 335,000 MT to reach 2.74 MMT.

Post forecasts the South African sugar cane crop will increase by 2 percent to 19.5 million Metric Tons (MT) in the 2019/20 Marketing Year (MY), due to normal weather conditions....

From January to June 2018, Egypt imported $2.6 billion worth of food ingredients.

In MY 2019/20, cotton area harvested is forecast to drop by almost 31 percent to 97,000 ha, from 141,000 ha in MY 2018/19.

All the sections of the report have been updated based on recent amendments to regulations, updated website links and to comply with the updated reporting instructions.

Egypt’s soybean imports in marketing year (MY) 2019/20 are forecast at 4 million metric tons (MMT), up 500,000 MT from the MY 2018/19 estimate.

Post forecasts that South Africa’s oilseed meal imports will drop by 25 percent to 495,000 tons in the 2019/20 MY, as a record of 1.3 million tons of oilseed meal will be produced locally.

In 2018, South Africa imported US$3.2 billion in processed foods, an increase of 5.5 percent from 2017, with the top five products being palm oil, food preparations, whiskies, beer made from malt....