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FEATURE: SUCCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA

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tries that we had not had representatives
from before."
Attendees were welcomed to Cape
Town by the Portfolio Committee on
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Chairperson Lulu Johnson, who offered
a heartfelt welcome to the visitors and
emphasized the importance of manufacturers of agricultural and agro-processing products.
"One part about our culture and agroprocessing that are interlinked relates to
food security in our country," he said.
"Both of these are topics that are very
close to all of us. In agriculture and food
security, this is what makes us who we
are today, who we were yesterday and
what we are going to be tomorrow. Without food we will die."
Johnson went on to note that the current African National Congress lead administration has emphasized the creation

of decent jobs as the cornerstone of government policy and the importance of
accelerating the domestic development
of agriculture and agro-processing.
TRADING SEMINAR
During the trading seminar, which featured presentations on the production and
stocks situation from the world's biggest
wheat-growing regions, the overarching
narrative was that many of the world's
traditional and emerging producers are
experiencing difficulties with their crops
due to the weather, conflicting demand
pressures, and infrastructure. Total worldwide wheat production in 2010 declined
5% from 2009 to 638,850,000 tonnes.
One of the major developments - if
not the defining one - of the 2010-11
global grain crop year has been the drastic shortfall in the Black Sea region's
production and the subsequent export
ban and quota in Russia and Ukraine.

Russia's drought and fires resulted in a
loss of 30 million tonnes of grains, including 20 million tonnes of wheat.
The ceasing of exports resulted in a
ripple affect across global wheat export
markets. The global grain and milling
industries are eagerly awaiting the Russian Statistics Offices' January-February report to see if Russia is recovering
from its downturn. The Ukraine also
experienced some production issues
mostly related to crop-reduction caused
by winter kills. After 2 million tonnes
of Ukrainian wheat was exported, the
government instituted a quota system.
Kazakhstan's production and exports
were also lower in 2010-11 because of
drought.
Australia's West Coast saw a sharp
decline in production and will relinquish its traditional role as the country's
dominant wheat export region this year
to the East Coast, which saw produc-

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