This is 109 percent more than was collected by the farmers in 2015/16 g (8.2 million tons). The reason for the record harvest, it became not only an increase in the acreage under culture, but productivity is very high, thanks to favorable weather conditions this year.

Analysts estimate the export potential of South Africa's 2.5 million tons, "the sun grains". In the current marketing year, South Africa could become the sole leader of the exports of corn for the consumers of grain.

For the first 4 months of the current marketing year (may-August) corn exports from South Africa amounted to 1.2 million tons. The main buyers of South African grain were traditionally countries of Asia and Africa. Leader of import was Japan and purchased 411 thousand tons of corn. On the second and third places were Kenya and Taiwan with the indicators 225 and 211 thousand tonnes, respectively.

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