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This blueberry outlook provides an overview of the baseline conditions at industry and farm level for South Africa within a global context. Download here to read the report.
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for May 2023. Download here to read the report.
South Africa’s seasonally adjusted quarter- on-quarter real GDP increased by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2023, but agricultural GDP contracted by 12.3%. This publication contextualises the latest release of GDP statistics by StatsSA and provides insights on the major factors behind agriculture’s contribution to GDP. Download here to read the full article.
The objective of this study is to provide a description of the energy dependency of the Western Cape agricultural sector on the national grid, within the context of the loadshedding situation, and to describe the on- and off-farm implications and quantify its socio-economic impacts. To reduce and/or mitigate the impact, the study provides recommendations on
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for April 2023. Download here to read the report.
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for March 2023. Download here to read the report.
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for February 2023. Download here to read the report.
South Africa’s seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter real GDP dropped by 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022. This publication contextualises the latest release of GDP statistics by StatsSA and provides insights on the major factors behind agriculture’s contribution to GDP. Download here to read the full article.
BFAP’s Agricultural Employment Brief interprets and contextualises the latest quarterly labour force survey from StatsSA and provides insights on the major factors driving agricultural employment. Click here to read more.
In this report, BFAP assesses the adoption trends of GM maize seed in South Africa. The main objective of this ongoing Maize Trust supported initiative is to estimate the most recent maize production season’s GM maize planting areas and GM trait adoption trends, as seed sales figures become available, in order to expand the historic database on
