It is cheaper 'to import maize from Brazil to the Western Cape than to rail or truck it down from the northern part of the country'.
It is cheaper ‘to import maize from Brazil to the Western Cape than to rail or truck it down from the northern part of the country’.
Speaking at the First National Bank pre-harvest briefing in Johannesburg yesterday, he said this was one of the many risks farmers take to ensure the nation has food. He said South Africa’s expensive and inadequate transport system rendered local farmers uncompetitive, saying, for instance, it was cheaper to import maize from Brazil to the Western Cape than to rail or truck it down from the northern part of the country.
On the consumer front, Makube said adequate supplies of grain would help limit food price acceleration in the medium term. Sorghum is the only crop that showed a positive yield projection, with production expected to increase from 115,000 tons in 2018-19 to 163,000 tons in 2019-20 – a difference of 42%.
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