South African farmers are planting more maize this year, covering 2.65 million hectares, according to the CEC. White maize ...

The maize prices continued to surge, with white maize trading at just over R6 300 per ton while yellow maize traded at over R5 000 per ton. Last month, the Pretoria office of the US Department of ...

The latest preliminary report from the Crop Estimates Committee (CEC), released on Tuesday has raised concerns for some ...

It is instructive to note that 1984 had the most reported drought – one of the main reasons was that Kenyans fed on yellow maize imported from Thailand and the US where it was produced for ...

In November 2024, the final estimate of the Crop Estimates Committee for white maize production was at 6.007 million tons, down by 29.3%, and yellow maize was at 6.716 million tons, down by 15.4% ...

Due to outbreaks of Goss’s bacterial wilt (Clovibacter michiganensis subsp. Nebraskensis) and bud rot of palms (Phytophthora ...