South Africa’s white-for-food, yellow-for-feed maize split built its poultry sector; Zambia and Mozambique stay locked in white maize with thin feed industries.
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Farming
The Maize Meal Cartel Question: Milling Power From Johannesburg to Lusaka
Maize milling concentrates pricing power across Southern Africa; South Africa polices it with strong competition tools, while Zambia and Zimbabwe lack muscle.
How South Africa Turned Maize Into a R20-Billion Machine — And Why Zambia Misses
South Africa’s R20bn maize crop runs on SAFEX price discovery and deregulated trade; Zambia and Malawi’s surplus-then-ban cycle shows the institutional gap.
Zimbabwe, Mozambique & Madagascar Businesses Source Equipment & Supplies from South Africa
For entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Madagascar, sourcing reliable equipment has always been a costly and uncertain challenge. From bakery ovens in Harare, to farming pumps in Beira, to industrial gas equipment in Antananarivo - the region’s businesses have...
From Egg to Market: The Business Timelines of Southern Africa’s Poultry Sector
For the poultry farmer, the clock starts not when the bird leaves the shell, but when the egg first feels the warmth of incubation. The length of that journey - 16 days for a quail, 46 days for an ostrich - can determine how quickly capital returns, how often the...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week — farm-to-market implications — and what comes next
Tripling a yield is an agronomic problem. Selling the extra harvest at a profit is a market problem, and the two rarely move at the same speed. When Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina opened the eighth SADC Industrialisation Week in Antananarivo on 29 July...
From Power Broker to Nation Builder: The Evolution of Saviour Kasukuwere
In the political tapestry of post-independence Zimbabwe, few figures have navigated power, policy, controversy, and comeback quite like Saviour "Tyson" Kasukuwere. A former cabinet minister, party commissar, businessman, and farmer, his name evokes both spirited...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — farm-to-market implications and what comes next
Agriculture rarely gets its own line item in a SADC trade communique, and the 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, meeting in Harare on 5 June 2025, was no exception. Yet almost every decision the ministers took bears directly on whether a farmer or agro-processor in...
SADC regional quality winners — agrifood value-chain opportunity — and what comes next
Eswatini Meat Industries did not simply win a category this week; it won the top overall prize, large-enterprise Company of the Year, in the 2024/25 SADC Quality Awards. That is a meaningful result for a processor operating in an agrifood value chain SADC has long...