Tag: Agriculture

South Africa’s manufacturing improved in June 2023 (IG) The manufacturing sector has demonstrated an impressive performance in June 2023, showing a 5.5% increase in production (...

Agro-processing Master Plan will help SA sow AfCFTA benefits (IOL) Targeted Spatial Agricultural development in South Africa: operationalising the Agriculture and Agroprocessing M...

South African farmers want WTO dispute declared over EU citrus rules (Engineering News) South African citrus farmers want their government to lodge a complaint against the Europea...

Industrial policy changes needed, TIPS forum hears (Engineering News) Academics and researchers have highlighted some of the policy changes needed within a changing global economy...

Global demand for coal is bringing mayhem to South African towns (Engineering News) An often impenetrable logjam of trucks laden with coal at South Africa’s crossing with Mozamb...

South Africa: Trade balance dipped unexpectedly in June (The Citizen) South Africa’s merchandise trade balance unexpectedly dipped in June, with the value of the country’s exp...

Trade statistics for June 2023 (South African Revenue Service) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R3.5 billion in June 2023. This deficit is attributable...

Somalia’s Institutions get a Boost to Help Bring the Country Closer to Debt Relief (World Bank) Somalia's efforts toward building strong institutions received a boost with a new...

South Africa Seeks to Halt Used Rail Track Exports to Curb Theft (Bloomberg) South Africa’s trade minister proposed new regulations to prohibit the export of used rail tracks an...

SA’s manufacturing sector and the golden opportunities for SMEs (Bizcommunity) South Africa’s manufacturing sector is one of several areas of interest, identified in the Natio...

This trade brief explores the potential for AfCFTA-enabled regional value chain (RVC) development for Mauritania, a North African country but one that has moderate trade and value ...

R78.9m disbursed to citrus growers under the economic transformation programme (Engineering News) Over the past three years, more than R161.3-million in funding has been approved ...

Demand aggregation, pricing clarity, standardisation needed to drive hydrogen infrastructure investment (Engineering News) Infrastructure is needed to enable the global energy tra...

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation with Kingdom of Lesotho Lesotho’s economy continues to face a number of challenges in the wake of the pandemic. Climat...

South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for platinum (Engineering News) South Africa dare not fail in securing future demand for its “incredible” platinum group m...

South Africa needs to embrace more 4IR technology or fall behind (Engineering News) Professional services and auditing firm PwC says that South Africa’s competitors are all adop...

This Trade Brief gives a snapshot overview of Algeria’s global economic and trading environment. It is accompanied by an infographic highlighting key economic and trade indicator...

L'Algérie est classée dans la catégorie des pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure, avec un produit intérieur brut (PIB) réel en parité de pouvoir d'achat (P...

La Mauritanie est classée parmi les pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche inférieure, avec un produit intérieur brut (PIB) par habitant en parité de pouvoir d'achat (PPA)...

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