Pineapple sales soar to 90,000 in a day from 10,000 amid booze ban

Four weeks into lockdown and without a rotisserie chicken in sight, South Africans are reconnecting with their kitchens. But it’s not demand for humble ingredients such as potatoes, garlic or onions that is rising exponentially, but rather pineapples.

For example, the price of large potatoes that would have normally gone into the restaurant and takeaway industry to make slap chips dropped off with lower demand. Now that the government has reopened informal trade, with the required permits, it is hoped sales and prices on many of these products will recover.In SA, wastage of fresh produce on markets is less than 1% and consists of product that is unfit for human consumption.This scenario is very different to those in other parts of the world, such as the US, where the Covid-19 measures have forced farmers to plough tonnes of perfectly good vegetables back into their fields.

Van Zyl does, however, expressed concern about the medium- and long-term effect of the pandemic. Farmers who import chemicals and seed will not escape the effect of the weak rand, though for now there is some reprieve on the fuel side as the oil price remains low.

Unban alcohol people don't have to resort to home brewed liquor. It's probably more dangerous.

Isiqatha

kevjakmak is this true?

You people are sleeping on amanzi we battery

heunes_johan 😂😂

MiMzV Punch 😂

Booze buddy is back 😂

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What if people are making gemere and not alcohol 🤷

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When life gives you pineapples...

🤣🤣🤣🤣 beer makers 🤣

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Potatoes are not cheap

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I really don’t want to laugh. 🤣🤣🤣

Good story

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Grapes 🍇 and yeast too 🤣🙈🤐😂

Vuyi_Mtshali NtombifuthiMahl the_hotone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Green apples and potato's too 😂

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