The latest food price monitoring report which the NAMC releases on a monthly basis shows that in January 2022 the nominal cost of the NAMC’s 28-item urban food basket amounted to R1 011.54 compared to the R1 001.18 reported in December 2021. This represents a monthly increase of 1.0% and a year-on-year increase of 4.1%.

Officials from the AMA on Wednesday engaged their counterparts from South Africa’s NAMC in Harare to exchange ideas on how to build capacity for smallholder farmers, improve market linkages and trade between the two countries…

‘There is a critical need to modernize South Africa’s agricultural production’, especially in
the current environment said delegates gathered a virtual workshop on agri-innovation.