SA counts the costs of veggie import bans
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High demand: The vegetable import ban has been extended to December 2025
South African agricultural economists estimate that the value of the country’s vegetable exports to Botswana dropped by 55% in 2022, the first year of the partial horticultural import ban imposed by Gaborone to boost local production.
The figures released recently are the first indication of the impact of the import ban effected in January 2022 by government.
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