Rising input costs dampen good agricultural run
despite relatively good prospects for rain for the 2021/2022 season, the local agricultural sector is currently experiencing mixed production conditions. This can, among other things, be ascribed to the enormous disruptions that the world is currently having to contend with amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the chairman of Agbiz, Francois Strydom, the world’s trade routes and the supply chains of virtually all products are currently plunged in chaos. Shipping costs have doubled since the beginning of the pandemic. Given the good run in the prices of
