“Currently, the CGA represents 1 400 growers across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini who collectively shipped 161 million cartons of fruit to global markets in 2021, sustaining 130 000 jobs and bringing in R25 billion in export revenue annually”

Cotton SA May Newsletter, provides a market outlook on the cotton industry. Due to the ongoing Russia/Ukraine Conflict, the local industry would not be severely affected, as little trade exists between South Africa and Ukraine in respect of textiles and clothing. In terms of local cotton estimates, the outlook for the remaining hectares remained increasingly weather dependent.

On 1 June 2022, one of South Africa’s giant mobile telecommunications company MTN, hosted the first ever Internet of Things (IoT) Agri Seminar. According to MTN, the webinar was hosted to promote
best practice sharing and collaboration in the Agricultural
Science and technological communities.