South Africa Agriculture Suffers as Drought Hits
4 November 2015 South Africa’s drought-hit northern Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces will be declared disaster areas for agriculture this week or next, an official said on Wednesday, according to a Reuters report.
According to Reuters, Ben Kgakatsi, director of risk management in the department of agriculture, said the sugar-growing province of KwaZulu-Natal would also soon be declared a disaster area for agriculture.
The corn-growing Free State and North West provinces have already been designated disaster areas for agriculture, as drought has delayed the planting of crops for the southern hemisphere summer season.
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