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Original Post Date: 2007-12-02 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Adriana
SA’s commercial maize-farmers — most of them are Afrikaners — will not be allowed to deliver grain to the ANC-regime’s planned biofuel plant.
The country only has about 16,000 commercial farmers left – from the original 85,000 in 1994 — and the ANC regime has apparently decided in a closed-door strategy meeting that while sugar-cane farmers will be allowed to sell to biofuel plants — the country’s maize production cannot be used for biofuel.
This is reported on December 2 2007 in the Afrikaans-language weekly Rapport.
The ANC regime did not consult about their decision with the country’s commercial maize farmers — most are located in the fertile fields around Bothaville in the Free State. They told Rapport that they are dismayed about this unilateral cabinet decision apparently taken during a strategy-meeting about their biofuel plans, being undertaken in cooperation with Brazil and India.
SA maize farmers:
http://www.grainsa.co.za/nam_index.asp
Apparently the cabinet supported local activists’ fears that the country’s food-security will be endangered if maize, the staple food, is used for biofuel.
South Africa needs about 9-million tons of maize annually to feed its own 46-million population. The country’s 100,000 ‘black-emergent-farmers’ however only produce enough maize to feed their own families and do not market their excess production at all, according to the 2005 tax-records they paid no income taxes at all for excess-food sales to commercial outlets.
The ANC regime’s behind-the-scenes cabinet decision also may mean the end of a commercial ethanol-project — Ethanol Africa at Bothaville – which was placed in the heartland of the SA commercial maize fields in the Free State.
Supporters of the Ethanol-Africa project say that the food-security of the country would be assured if an alternative market for excess-maize could be created with ethanol-production.
South Africa has the potential to produce 12-million tons of maize annually.
It’s annual maize-requirement to feed the local 46-m population is 9-m tons of maize.
“If the production is greater than the demand, the price drops and this forces farmers to sell the entire cop at too-low prices. However, if maize producers including black-emergent farmers, are allowed to sell their excess to ethanol-plants, these farmers can maintain their production for animal-feed and human needs as well and nobody will suffer,’ commercial maize farmers interviewed by Rapport said.
And ‘black newly emergent farmers’ could also be helped to get onto the commercial maize-production ladder by selling their excess production to such ethanol-factories and allowing them to earn cash incomes instead of remaining on their present subsistence-farming levels.
Rapport said the SA government apparently will however allow sugar-cane farmers — mostly located in KZN, and of whom many are of Indian descent — to sell their excess production for ethanol.
The regime apparently also is again dusting off its previously-failed beet-production plans in the Eastern Cape to boost ethanol-fuel production.
The regime’s apparently is to form a cooperative pact with Brasil and India to get biofuel production booted up.
Brazil has been running more than 80% of its energy needs on ethanol, produced from its sugarcane and maize products. Brazil has no food-shortage problems.
Source: http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Sake-Rapport/0,,752-803_2231078,00.html