Published: 28/03/2018
The National Crop Estimates Committee reaffirmed its view that South Africa is in for a good grain and oilseed harvest this season (albeit being less than the record achieved in 2016/17 season). The Committee revised its production estimates upwards by 2% from last month to 14.8 million tonnes. The notable uptick was on white maize, sunflower seed, sorghum and soybeans production - Wandile Sihlobo, Agbiz Economist
The National Crop Estimates Committee reaffirmed its view that South Africa is in for a good grain and oilseed harvest this season (albeit being less than the record achieved in 2016/17 season). The Committee revised its production estimates upwards by 2% from last month to 14.8 million tonnes[1]. The notable uptick was on white maize, sunflower seed, sorghum and soybeans production. This was generally underpinned by favourable weather conditions across the summer crop growing areas, which subsequently lead to expectations of good yields. Encouragingly, there are forecasts of above-average rainfall over the summer crop growing areas within the next two months, which should sustain the crop in good condition throughout the production season.
[1] Summer crops represents yellow maize, white maize, sunflower seed, soybean, groundnuts, sorghum and dry beans.
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Wandile Sihlobo (wandile@agbiz.co.za)
Head: Agribusiness Research