Time is running out for government to get a Chinese ban on the import of wool from South Africa lifted before SA's first wool auction for the 2022/23 season next week.
"We registered all our export facilities to align with what the Chinese require. They accepted [our measures] in 2019, but unfortunately, with new outbreaks, they seem to have concerns that the problem is escalating," says Leon de Beer, CEO of the National Wool Growers Association of SA . "The aim was to limit the disruption to trade in circumstances such as the current one," says De Beer.
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development agrees that China's ban is not scientifically justifiable. "These producers and surrounding communities will fall back into poverty should the Chinese market remain closed for wool from SA", says Van der Rheede.
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Fin24 Very many black farmers will be affected by this!