S. African Farmers to Plant 2.74 Million Hectares Corn 1
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Farmers in South Africa, the continent’s largest corn producer, are expected to plant 1.3 percent more of the grain this season, the nation’s Crop Estimates Committee announced.
The country’s farmers will sow 2.74 million hectares (6.77 million acres) with corn, including 1.6 million with white corn and 1.14 million hectares with the yellow variety, compared with 2.69 million hectares planted in the previous season, Marda Scheepers, a spokeswoman for the committee, said by phone from Pretoria today. That compares with a 2.6 million-hectare median estimate of five traders surveyed by Bloomberg News Oct 18.