SA food security assured as virus closes global export markets

Food producers will have to find alternative markets locally as the Covid-19 outbreak could put a damper on South Africa’s record harvest projections for the year, according to experts. But this also meant that South Africans should stop panicking about food security for now.

But the farming economy could take a knock in the event of notable declines in global demand, which he warned was a likely event at this point. This week the group called for calm, asking South Africans to stop panic buying because while South Africa was a net exporter of agricultural products, domestic food security was still robust.

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