THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLY AND DEMAND PROJECTIONS FOR GRAINS AND OILSEEDS FOR August 2020 ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Although the National Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) made a marginal upward adjustment to its earlier estimate of the country's 2020/21 total grain and oilseed output, the 17.85 million tonnes is still one of the largest on record crop and is 34% higher relative to the 2019 levels.

In Europe, the heat has caused a decrease in the consumption of potatoes, but also in the regrowth of new potatoes in the field.

The impact of the unusual past few months on the fresh produce supply chain was discussed at last week’s PMA Fresh connections conference, in what has been a season that, amid the challenges, experienced increased overseas demand for many fresh commodities and export returns optimised by a weakening exchange rate.

Such as change in pH, desertification, loss of vegetative cover, change in soil structure, use of toxic pollutant, miss use of fertilizer, overgrazing, poor farming, deforestation.

We are all familiar with erosion and the soil’s ability to wear away, but few people associate soil with growing upward.