Will the 2024-25 season be a recovery period for South Africa's agriculture?

Published 2024년 9월 9일

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South African farmers are preparing for the 2024-25 summer grains and oilseed production season, following a season that saw crop losses due to drought. The upcoming season, expected to bring improved rainfall due to potential La Niña conditions, is hoped to be a recovery period. The Crop Estimates Committee will release the farmers' planting intentions data in October. In the meantime, South Africa remains a net exporter of maize, although volumes have decreased due to drought. The country also imports yellow maize for animal feed, and the total imports for the 2024-25 marketing year stand at 145k tonnes.

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By this time next month, the fields across the eastern regions of South Africa will likely be busy. Farmers will be tilling the land for the 2024-25 summer grains and oilseed production season in mid-October. It will be another month before the country's western regions start till the land, from mid-November. The variation in the optimal planting windows is mainly due to the differences in rainfall patterns. From now on through the season, the weather outlook will remain a primary focus for the agricultural stakeholders. We are, after all, emerging from a challenging 2023-24 summer grains and oilseed season that resulted in major crop losses. The latest figures from the Crop Estimates Committee show that the 2023-24 summer crop may have fallen as much as 22% from the previous season to 15,69 million tonnes. The 2024-25 season seems likely to be a recovery period. So far, global weather forecasters such as the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia ...

Source: Farmingportal