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Nigeria’s wheat consumption continues to increase as prices of other major locally grown staples remain higher than those for wheat products.

South Africa serves as the perfect entry point to doing business in the Sub-Saharan African region.

For MY 2017/18, total area and production levels for West Africa are estimated to increase 2.75 percent to 2.95 million 480 lb. bales assuming good weather and strong farm gate prices.

Ethiopia recently announced a tender for 400,000 metric tons of milling wheat to be used for humanitarian assistance purposes in the country.

This is Post`s first report on the South African blueberry industry.

The Angolan Government made more foreign exchange (forex) injections available in 2017 to combat the high inflation and reduced food availability due to lack of forex since mid-2015.

The South African sugar industry is expected to recover from the previous seasons’ drought following the normal rainfall and weather patterns in the 2017/18 MY.

As a result of the historically high corn crop, South Africa returned to being a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY....

South Africa announced a new wheat import tariff of R379.34 per ton on September 8, 2017.

After making its initial landfall in Ethiopia earlier this year, the fall armyworm (FAW) – a crop-eating pest – has quickly spread through the maize-producing regions of the country....

This is Posts’ first report on the Zambia sugar industry.

Post estimates that South African pork imports will increase marginally by about 2.5 percent annually, reaching about 32,000 tons cwe in 2017 and 33,000 tons cwe in 2018.