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Many countries offer some support for their farmers, South Africa needs to revisit their programs for black farmers to aid production.

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Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. The South African wine industry as a whole – hectares, production, cellars, consumption – may have shrunk by 10% in the past five years, but the ones who felt the blow the most were the 2,778 grape growers. So said Professor Nick Vink, emeritus professor in Stellenbosch University’s agricultural economics department. According to Vink, in the past five years wine production has dropped from 1,200 million litres to 1,100 million litres, and grape produc...

Days of wine by the barrel are drying up for South Africa’s farmers and vinters Rebecca Pitt Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. The South African wine industry as a whole – hectares, production, cellars, consumption – may have shrunk by 10% in the past five years, but the ones who felt the blow the most were the 2,778 grape growers. So said Professor Nick Vink, emeritus professor in Stellenbosch University’s agricultural economics department. According to Vink, in the ...