South African Food Cost Review, 2014
Fruit and vegetables
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has launched the Food Cost Review 2014. A joint annual publication by the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) and Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), the report monitors food price trends and movements in South Africa.
>The prevailing drought conditions in the country have caused a concern in terms of expected food price increases. “The worst affected provinces are currently the Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. The Provincial Departments of Agriculture provided drought relief assistance to the aggregate amount of R14,7 million to small-scale and subsistence farmers” said the Minister during his keynote address.'