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| Headline: | Wheat Imports 'A Threat' to Local Farmers |
| Description: | Business Day (Johannesburg): GRAIN SA chairman Bully Botma yesterday urged government to introduce higher tariffs to protect the country's wheat growers against cheap imports mainly from subsidised countries. He said SA was a net importer of wheat, producing about 1,5million tons of wheat against domestic demand of about 2,5-million tons a year. SA has about 4000 commercial wheat farmers, employing about 28000 people. Botma said local producers had come under strain due to an influx of cheap wheat from heavily subsidised countries. ' Government has to catch a wake-up. Wheat is highly subsidised in the UK and US. Their producers have an unfair advantage over ours. In addition to these countries, we also get a lot of wheat from South American countries, which have much lower input costs than ours. |
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| Country (origin): | South Africa |
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| Last editing: | 2005-01-05 10:35:37 |