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South Africa’s corn exports are continuing on the preexisting positive trend amidst a COVID-19 lockdown that started on March 27, 2020.

Post forecasts that the South African sugar cane crop will increase by 1 percent to 19.4 million Metric Tons (MT) in the 2020/21 Marketing Year (MY), based on normal weather and growing conditions...

South Africa has to import rice to meet local demand as rice production is insignificant in the country. As a result, any trade restrictions introduced by exporter countries, due to COVID-19...

South Africa with its well-developed business market, serves at a gate way to Sub-Saharan African markets.

In the 2020/21 MY, Post forecasts that South Africa's oilseed meal imports will drop by 8 percent to 550,000 tons and oilseed oil imports will decline by 5 percent to less than 400,000 tons...

On March 23, 2020, the President of South Africa announced that starting from March 26 2020, South Africa would enter into a 21-day lockdown until April 16, 2020.

Currently there are no USDA-endorsed trade shows planned in South Africa in 2020.

South Africa will remain a net exporter of corn in the 2020/21 MY, on relatively high stock levels, due to an anticipated bumper crop in the 2019/20 MY.

On March 12, 2020, South Africa announced that the applied most favoured nation duties (MFN) on imports of bone-in chicken will be raised from 37 percent to 62 percent...

Post estimates that the wine grape production will increase marginally by 1 percent to 1.25 million Metric Tons (MT) in the calendar year 2020, due to the improved availability of irrigation water....

During February 26 to March 5, 2020, a representative from the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) visited South Africa.

South Africa has lifted a four-year ban on poultry imports from the Netherlands that was due to the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in 2016.