SouthAfrica: State failure and electricity brownouts in South Africa are eating into the dinner plate for both farmers and consumers as rising hunger hits home.
A worker hands out South African bank notes to a customer in Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg, South Africa, May, 2023.
Penyai Baloyi is frowning while buying a 1.5kg broiler chicken to cook for her family of four in Tembisa, one of the poorest townships of Gauteng, South Africa’s economic powerhouse province. Two years ago, market traders would bring hearty 3kg birds, but the breeders are rushing to sell lower weight and fewer birds at higher prices.
“Sellers say breeders can’t produce bigger birds in bigger numbers because it’s now harder, costlier to do so,” Baloyi tellsState failure in South Africa is eating into the dinner plate for both farmers and consumers – and“South Africa faces major infrastructure challenges which impacts the competitiveness of our agricultural sector,” Johann Pretorius, the CEO of Karan Beef, the country’s biggest cattle producer says, tellingEggs, live chickens, potatoes, beef, fruit, onions, and all types of...
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