AGRICULTURE NEWS - Positive sentiment in South Africa’s agriculture sector continued improving in the first quarter of 2021 (Q1 2021) after Q4 2020’s sentiment was initially deemed the most positive since the second quarter of 2014.
The latest Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index (ACI) report said that this overall sentiment had increased to 64 points from the previous quarter’s 61.
“These results likely reflect not only the robust performance of South Africa’s agriculture sector in 2020, where gross value-added expanded by 13,1% year-on-year, but also positive early signs for another season of large harvests in 2020/2021 from most subsectors,” the report said.
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