date:Aug 02, 2013
ase its production estimate for commercial corn even more by the end of July. Hence, post kept its commercial corn crop estimate unchanged at 11.1 million tons.
According to the CEC, subsistence farmers produced 675,090 tons of corn on 456,900 hectares in the 2012/13 MY. This means that South Africas total corn crop for the 2012/13 MY is estimated at 11.8 million tons on 3.2 million hectares.
In the first three months of the 2012/13 MY, South Africa already exported 701,818 tons of corn. Post