Farmers need decisive measures to ensure food security s - Agri SA's Kulani Siweya

Agri Sa has urged Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to announce measures for farmers in his budget speech to help them to protect the country’s food security. An agricultural economist at Agri SA, Kulani Siweya told Biznews that loadshedding is the most urgent threat to the nation’s farmers and they should be allocated resources to buttress them against its wors effects. Siweya said Agri SA is deeply concerned about the confluence of challenges that have come together to make food production in South African especially difficult at this time and although he did not want to create panic about food security, loadshedding is causing significant disruption. KFC and chicken farmers are an example of the effect it has had. He called on the government not to increase sin taxes as it has a dire effect on farmers and to assist farmers with funding to enable the agricultural sector to be one of the solutions to the energy crisis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices