Cabinet concerned about escalating food prices

Tina Joemat-Pettersson is an ass, she will blame Walmart for this.

it is kinda obvious, to much extra levies on all our taxes or government services will put up the prices of food and the fact that farming isn't the most aspiring career in SA at the moment!

Originally Posted by chrisc4290

It is just a vote-gathering exercise. The whole food story cannot be fixed by one operation. It starts at the farmer, then the expensive distribution, storage, more distribution. Then, a good deal of food gets thrown away, often when there is nothing wrong with it. The "best-by" dates on food are to blame for this

You need to learn the difference between a law and a standard...you're allowed to sell rotten milk, but no one is going to buy it!

Originally Posted by biometrics

Let them eat cake.

where was that from, that sounds familiar?

Anc all talk, no fix. What's new...

The gravy isn't coming cheap anymore.

stop talking.........do something about it already.

Cabinet and the ANC are the main reason for all of this so what exactly are they concerned about?

Originally Posted by marine1

Cabinet and the ANC are the main reason for all of this so what exactly are they concerned about?

They're worried that the peasants will catch a clue and pin the tail on their donkey.

The people must switch off their eating

Originally Posted by bekdik

The people must switch off their eating

Agreed..

Your eating levels are too high, please stop eating unnecessarily.

Wtf? People blame the government? Lol, the are a small contributing factor. Big business want the highest profit margins and as long as people do not vote with their wallets it will keep being over inflated.

Originally Posted by BandwidthAddict

They're worried that the peasants will catch a clue and pin the tail on their donkey.

What, has Malema the village idiot of Donkeyville returned?

For many years SA was a net food exporter now we import more than we export. Goverment should protect our farmers at all cost. NB all farmers white black pink or orange does not matter what race group.

Wtf? People blame the government? Lol, the are a small contributing factor. Big business want the highest profit margins and as long as people do not vote with their wallets it will keep being over inflated.

The evill one has quite a latent echo, or perhaps he forgot he had already posted that earlier?

Originally Posted by Jarrod

For many years SA was a net food exporter now we import more than we export.

Since when do we import more food than we export?

Originally Posted by rpm

Cabinet has expressed concern at the escalation of food prices and the impact it is having on the poor.

According to a Cabinet statement, issued by Government Communications (GCIS) on Friday, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tina Joemat-Pettersson will brief Cabinet on the matter at the next Cabinet meeting.

We just fix it with a lot of money like this:

Originally Posted by ghoti

Since when do we import more food than we export?

At the moment on cell but please google south africa net food importer. Seems since 2007/8

Originally Posted by Jarrod

At the moment on cell but please google south africa net food importer. Seems since 2007/8

Seems to have returned as a net food exporter

http://www.sairr.org.za/media/media-...20exporter.pdf

South Africa is a net a food exporter, selling abroad 30% more agricultural goods
than it imported in 2010, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published
last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Agricultural exports grew by 10% between 2008 and 2010, with total agricultural
exports amounting to $6.8bn in 2010. During the same period, agricultural imports
increased by just less than 1% and amounted to $5.2bn. Agricultural exports stood
at 5% of South Africa’s total exports in 2010, with agricultural imports accounting for
2% of total imports.
The Institute’s analysis was based on data supplied by the Foreign Agricultural
Service at the United States Department of Agriculture. The data revealed that the
Netherlands was South Africa’s largest agricultural export destination, accounting
for a little over 10% of South Africa’s total such exports in 2010, worth $700m.
Between 2008 and 2010, the demand for South African agricultural exports grew in
Asia and Africa while the proportion of such exports going to European countries
declined.
Argentina has remained South Africa’s largest source of agricultural imports since
2008. However, the proportion of such imports from Argentina has fallen from 17%
in 2008 to 12% in 2010, when they were worth $628m.
The ratio of agricultural imports to exports has increased since the mid 1960s, when
the ratio of imports to exports stood at 1 to 5. In the decade between 1995 and 2005
the ratio of agricultural imports to exports stood at 2 to 3. In 2007 agricultural imports
temporarily exceeded agricultural exports by a ratio of 11 to 10.
‘Recent data indicates that demand for South African agricultural products is not
only holding steady, but is in fact growing’ said Mr Jonathan Snyman, a researcher
at the Institute. ‘Food security is an especially precarious state of affairs in subSaharan Africa, so it is a positive development that South Africa has maintained its
status as a net agricultural exporter’ added Mr Snyman.