“Sellers say breeders can’t produce bigger birds in bigger numbers because it’s now harder, costlier to do so,” Baloyi tells The Africa Report. State failure in South Africa is eating into the dinner plate for both farmers and consumers – and debilitating mass riots in July 2021 were partly blamed on rising hunger. “South Africa faces major infrastructure challenges which impacts the competitiveness of our agricultural sector,” Johann Pretorius, the CEO of Karan Beef, the country’s biggest cattle producer says, telling The Africa Report that it is now “a challenging environment”. Eggs and crisesEggs, live chickens, potatoes, beef, fruit, onions, and all types of household basic foods are under increasing threat of vanishing from markets in South Africa, one of the world’s biggest food-producing countries. Food chain players pin down these fears to multiple crises that range from

Source: The North Africa Journal June 15, 2023 11:07 UTC