What happened to groundnut production in South Africa?
Notably, groundnut production in all the major producing regions has undergone a drastic decline during 2012/13 season, leading to a slight decline in South Africa’s total groundnuts production. Gauteng Province has not recorded any groundnuts production volume from 2010/11 until 2019/20 marketing seasons.
Which province exports the most groundnuts in South Africa?
Table 2 confirms the earlier observation that Gauteng province is the largest contributor towards South Africa’s total value of groundnuts exports followed by Northern Cape and North-West provinces.
How are groundnuts used in South Africa?
Figure 6 shows the utilization of groundnuts in South Africa from 2010/11 to 2019/20. The figure indicates that locally groundnuts are utilized mainly for manufacturing peanut butter, for sales as raw peanuts to the direct market, for oil and oilcake and for seed.
Is the South African groundnut industry at a crossroads?
The South African groundnut industry once again finds itself at a crossroads ? this time with the possibility of more extensive and irreversible consequences for the future existence of this local R2,5 billion industry.