The volume of export yellow corn was 31.3 kt and white – 44,0 thousand tons compared to the same period last season the export of yellow maize declined by 38%, white – 20%.

The biggest buyer of South African yellow corn Taiwan (18.3 thousand MT). Deliveries of white maize was carried out in African countries, including Botswana (14.6 thousand tonnes) and Namibia (10.2 kt).

It is expected that the export of maize for the entire season at times surpassed the lean last season. According to forecasts by the South African national Committee for the evaluation of crops (CEC), the gross harvest of corn, harvesting of which will finish in June, will rise to a record 15,63 million tons In the drought last year, the gross harvest of corn did not exceed of 7.78 million tonnes, the lowest level in nine years.

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