date:Aug 02, 2013
ut 12.2 million tons and an exportable surplus of two million tons.
The Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) in June estimated the commercial corn crop for the 2012/13 MY at 11.4 million tons, which is already one million tons or eight percent lower than its first estimate in February.
The area planted was kept unchanged at 2.8 million hectares. The drought that hit the Northwest and Free State Provinces earlier this year, severely affected the summer crops.
Expectations are that the CEC will decre