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Johannesburg - South Africans will have to pay more for food in the new year if the drought continues to wreak havoc on this year’s harvest.



Christo Joubert of National Agricultural Marketing sounded this warning yesterday, following Water and Sanitation Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane’s announcement on the state of the drought ravaging the country.

“The situation is critical, but there is still some time to go. We usually produce between 9 to 10 million tons of maize annually, and because of the severe drought, it could be less.

“The problem is that we can’t import white maize, as there isn’t a lot available in the world and it’s also a quality issue. There is also a possibility of inflation rising on food prices,” Joubert warned.

“We currently have enough maize to carry us through to July next year, but how big the crop will be that is still to be harvested will be determined in January.

“ If we have a drought as serious as the 1982/1983, 1992/1993 and 1998 droughts, then we’ll run into trouble,” Joubert said.

On Thursday, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ crop estimates committee released a statement detailing the intentions of farmers to plant summer crops for next year. It shows that farmers intend producing fewer commercial crops including white maize, yellow maize, sunflower seeds, soya beans, groundnuts, sorghum and dry beans.
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http://beta.iol.co.za/business/news/food-prices-to-soar-1938945
 
Not to worry, government is on top of the crisis. In the same article, Mokonyane has made a valuable suggestion to fix this.

“We’ll have to have prayer services because there are those who believe that with prayer we can have rain. We’ll have to get traditional leaders and those involved in traditional healing… If they do believe they can do something, they must do it…”
 
Keerist, we need to get some intelligent bloody ministers in place :(
 
surface said:
Not to worry, government is on top of the crisis. In the same article, Mokonyane has made a valuable suggestion to fix this.

“We’ll have to have prayer services because there are those who believe that with prayer we can have rain. We’ll have to get traditional leaders and those involved in traditional healing… If they do believe they can do something, they must do it…”
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Traditional healing? Hmmmm... anybody up for a get-rich-quick scheme?
 
R96M for KZN drought relief

Published: Nov. 2, 2015, 8:10 a.m. by Anelisa Kubheka -

KwaZulu-Natal will receive R96-million to fund drought intervention projects.


The Department of Water and Sanitation says the drought-relief funds will also be used to finance water tanks.


Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says so far, KwaZulu-Natal and Free State have been declared drought disaster areas.


She says 2.7-million households, many of them in KZN have been affected.


"More than 150 water tankers have already been deployed in 12 local municipalities. There's also severe restrictions that have already been put in place," she said.
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More at http://www.ecr.co.za/news-sport/news/r96m-kzn-drought-relief/
 
going to burn down my local Pick 'n' Pay today...

#foodpricesmustfall
 
Ninja'd said:
Used to be he used lightning to strike them down, now he uses drought.

I miss Old Testament God.
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LOL yeah

Do you see now what happens, my *shakes head*...*sigh*...children, when the land cannot produce food? Your fat boy becomes *POOF*... THINBOY! Muuhahaha
 
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