Friday, 16 May, 2025
Financial Mail, Wandile Sihlobo
We have been saying for some time that 2025 will be a recovery year for South African agriculture, mainly highlighting the gains in grains, soybeans and horticulture yields. But I was particularly pleased last week when I received a report from South Africa Wine indicating that we will have an excellent harvest in 2025.
South Africa Wine and Vinpro forecast the wine grape harvest to be 1.244Mt, an 11% recovery from the exceptionally poor harvest in 2024. Importantly, the quality promises to be excellent.
With a harvest like this, our preoccupation for the coming months will be export markets and logistics.
The US market has dominated the trade conversation in recent weeks. However, long before the Trump tariffs, the South African wine industry and the entire agricultural sector had been focused on expanding export markets beyond the existing ones.
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