The South African government's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) predicts that maize farmers will see a 6% increase in harvest for the 2022/2023 season compared to the previous year. The CEC's final summer crop forecast estimates the harvest to be 16.40 million tonnes, with 8.5 million tonnes of white maize for human consumption and 7.9 million tonnes of yellow maize for animal feed. This forecast remains unchanged from the previous estimate.