Fututre of beef industry up in the air
  • 4 years ago
While most of SA’s agriculture subsectors look likely to emerge relatively unscathed from the COVID-19 crisis, largely because they were permitted to operate throughout the hard lockdown, the same cannot be said about the beef industry. Business Day reporting this morning that this is due to price swings, foot-and-mouth disease, the limited operations and closure of some restaurants, and depressed consumer demand. So can the sector recover? Christo Joubert from National Agricultural Marketing Council speaks on this.
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