date:Aug 02, 2013
Post forecasts that the total area planted to corn later in 2013 by commercial and subsistence farmers for the 2013/14 MY [1] (May 2014 to April 2015), will be around 3.1 million hectares.
Commercial farmers will plant about 2.6 million hectares and subsistence farmers 500,000 hectares.
This forecast is based on the decreasing trend in hectares planted with corn over the past 10 years in South Africa. Based on national average yields, 3.1 million hectares could realize a total corn crop of abo