Sheep Baarack is pictured after his thick wool was shorn in Lancefield, Victoria, Australia February 5, 2021.Sheep Baarack is pictured after his thick wool was shorn in Lancefield, Victoria, Australia February 5, 2021.Another big looming issue is the ban on wool exports from South Africa to China due toChina is the biggest market for South African wool with up to 80% of production going east.
“The ban on the export of wool to China is very serious. We don’t understand it and think there must be an underlying problem. There was food and mouth in 2018, they put all the protocols in place, protocols are still very much in place, the stores are being warmed, and the wool is piling. We don’t understand why this ban has not been lifted, we suspect there’s an underlying reason.”
“We can’t rely on the export market to grow our economy, we should have done this a long time ago as government. It’s amazing that we don’t have proper wool processing plants in our province, in our country when we have the largest wool stock. I had some discussion with wool growers and we are going to have a follow-up meeting,” says Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane.
Now they wear bullet proof vests for the fear of Mamboyi