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Veggie ban makes up for huge import bill

Hopeful: Delivering SONA this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.
Hopeful: Delivering SONA this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.

There are still issues of low supply, poor quality of produce, inflated prices and smuggling among others but President Mokgweetsi Masisi is confident that the vegetable import ban which came into effect on January 1 this year will bear fruits in the long run and make up for previous huge vegetable import bill.

Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.

The ban had targeted 16 vegetables such as onions, butternut, tomatoes, watermelons, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and ginger but three crops, in particular, potatoes, tomatoes and onions accounted for 53% of the horticultural import bill.

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