Nontando Mafanya
23 February 2016
Agri-SA has repeated its call
for government to declare the drought a national disaster, saying farmers will
need at least R4-billion in aid in the next few years. Role players in the
sector are waiting to find out what Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has in
store for drought stricken regions – if anything - when he outlines the Budget
on Wednesday. A task team
reporting to government paints a dark picture of the drought gripping the
country. At least four million tons of maize need to be imported and there are
major concerns over cattle deaths.
Agri-SA president Johannes
Moller said… “The sector will probably
need at least R4-billion of government aid over the next three years to ensure
that we can move back to a situation of food security in South Africa and to
make sure that the animal herd, the animal production herd, is rebuilt to an
acceptable level.”
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