South Africa Cuts Intended Bean Area
VANCOUVER - Oct 25/11 - SNS -- Interest in growing dry edible beans in South Africa is continuing the deteriorate, with farmers intended to further reduce land in the crop in favor of corn, judging from the latest crop report from the South Africa Grain Information Service (SAGIS).
If yields are at their recent five-year average, dry edible bean production will not fall as much as the acreage decline, but a smaller crop would increase the country's need to import light speckled beans from China, as well as limit its opportunity to sell local production to neighboring countries.
Discussing this year's summer crop seeding intentions, SAGIS said land in corn will increase 9.7% to a forecast 2.602 million hectares. "The figures show that producers intend to plant 1.564 million hectares to white maize, which is 145,900 hectares (10.3%) more than in the previous season. In the case of yellow maize, the expected plantings is 1.038 million hectares, which is 84,000 hectares (8.8%) more than in the previous season.
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