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Description: These are three major challenges that confronted South Africa's agriculture this past week. Read more about these in my Business Day column tomorrow, July 17.

Wandile Sihlobo

Chief Economist, Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz)

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These are three major challenges that confronted South Africa's agriculture this past week. Read more about these in my Business Day column tomorrow, July 17.

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Through the past 30 years of exceptional progress in South Africa's agricultural sector, there's been numerous challenges, but the stakeholders in the sector I have managed to come through and continued with their business and this past week is no different. South Africa's agricultural sector and even the news in agriculture were dominated by three major events. The first one is the frost in the northern regions of South Africa, which has affected some farms, particularly in the potato. Industry and their farms that have been badly affected are some whose crop was planted somewhere from May onwards. But the scale of how much damage and what and what it means at a national level is something that we are yet to understand. But I think from various conversations and interactions that we have had with the farmers, I think that it's not going to be a national food crisis. But for the businesses that are affected, of course there will be financial implications on that the other. Expect that we saw dominating the news last week was of course the challenge of the floods in the Western Cape and to even some regions of the Eastern Cape. And that has disrupted the activity in terms of their harvesting in some farms in citrus space of the Eastern Cape last week and even in the Western Cape. But of course there's no major damage that we have heard being reported in the Eastern Cape. In the Western Cape, there may be some infrastructure challenges and of course you will also appreciate that in the Western Cape this time. Around we are in season for wheat, canola, barley and oats. Those are the winter crops. So it continues to rain. We will assess on what the impact of that is on those fields. But so far we haven't heard much of A damage in agricultural activity, but we've heard of the damages on public infrastructure. The Eastern Cape though also is another challenge which is the foot and mouth disease, which is the affected the dairy industry there. The stakeholders are working together and I think that the Afghan government. The minister and the others have made statements about what's going on there, but those are the three problems that I think they confronted our sector. And you can read more about what exactly we are, how exactly we are thinking about these, as well as their impact on South Africas agricultural growth in my column for the Business Day which comes out tomorrow, July 17th.

Tshilidzi Mathobo (MBL)

Agricultural Economist, Agro Sector Development Specialist, Investment Promoter & facilitator, KilimoBiashara Proponent. Armchair Farmer

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Weather/Climatic related risks is a serious Supply Chain Risks that affect both commercial and SHF farmers. The frost in the Limpopo potato region was catastrophic.

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Gibisela Odwa

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Thank you for the Update Wandile Sihlobo

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