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Agribook Agriculture Weekly is a weekly blog post that covers all the important news in the farming and agriculture industry. Each week we put together a list of important news articles, blog posts and industry developments both nationally and internationally. This week we continue our focus on the impact of Covid-19 and also provide updates on global produce markets.

 

Covid-19-related

 

 International

  • Wandile Sihlobo (Agbiz), in an article “Agriculture After the Pandemic” in the USA’s Project Syndicate also looks at the effect of Covid-19 on countries, and moves on to suggesting that South Africa may need to turn increasingly to greater automation – because that is what its competitors are doing.
  • Fresh Plaza gives an update on both the global tomato and avocado markets.
  • Did you know the USA imports ice cream from SA? This is included in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)‘s “Food Processing Ingredients” which looks at trade between the USA and SA in processed foods.
  • The FAS “Grain: World Markets and Trade“,  looks at wheat (includes a look at what impact restrictions by Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan on exporting its wheat crop because of Covid-19 may have), rice and coarse grains (maize, barley, sorghum, oats and rye). See the discussion on the prospects of South African exports of maize (corn) with advantages of rain and a weak currency behind it. Its “Oilseeds and Products Annual for South Africa” is also a notable.
  • For those in the livestock value chains, “Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade” will be of interest.

 

National

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