With the petrol price going up again today for the fourth time in as many months, the ripple effect on food inflation is likely to be felt.
However, an encouraging trend is the amount of energy being spent on growing our food-producing sector through investment in small and medium enterprises.
The warnings over the ‘collapse’ of the South African poultry industry continue. Now it is because of government ‘intransigence’ over compensation for culling. As we explain in our Fact Check, all of these dire predictions come from the same place.