Industry body the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) says South Africa’s summer crop has not been as bad as some might have feared at the start of the 2021/22 production season, when heavy rains threatened yields. For example, the Crop Estimates Committee estimates the maize harvest at 14.7-million tonnes, and albeit down 10% year-on-year, the harvest is still well above the ten-year average of 12.8-million tonnes.
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