South Africa: Oilseeds and Products Annual
Due to an extreme drought oilseed production in South Africa is expected to decrease by 20 percent in the 2015/16 MY to 1.4 million tons. However, post forecasts that the increasing trend in the production of oilseeds in South Africa, before the drought, will continue in the 2016/17 MY, under normal climatic conditions, due to the demand pull from the investments that have grown the oilseed processing capacity in South Africa. As a result, post estimates South Africa will crush a record of 1.8 million tons of oilseeds in the 2016/17 MY and oilseed meal imports will drop to less than 40 percent of local consumption.
