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In FY2014 FAS/Pretoria sent eight South Africans from the public and private sectors to participate in a Farm Management training course through the USDA Cochran Fellowship Program.

The Africa’s Big Seven (AB7) trade show took place from June 21-23, 2015 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in South Africa’s Midrand area of Greater Johannesburg.

The 3rd Financing for Development (FfD) Conference established the development financing framework for the post-2015 development agenda.

There is currently no production of agricultural biotechnology in Angola, and GE imports are limited to food aid.

On May, 20, 2015, the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) published a government notice (No. 38808) inviting the public to comment on the National Liquor Policy.

June 4 and 5, 2015, in Paris, the South Africa and U.S. poultry industries came to an agreement that would permit the return of U.S. bone in chicken to South Africa.

African leaders launched the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) at the June 2015 African Union summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The target date for finishing CFTA negotiations is 2017.

Post expects that Zimbabwe’s corn imports will be significantly higher in the 2015/16 MY and may reach 900,000 tons...

USAID’s Southern Africa Trade Hub brought together regulators and standards organizations from across Southern Africa and the United States to discuss good regulatory practices.

Ethiopia is Africa’s leading coffee producer and the fifth largest in the world. MY15/16 production is forecast at 6.508 million bags (390,500 metric tons).

Post estimates that the 2014/15 MY production of apples will increase by fourteen percent to 900,000 MT and the table grapes production will increase by seven percent to 340,000 MT...

Ethiopia's cotton production, which has remained fairly flat in recent years, is estimated at 184,000 bales (40,000 metric tons) in MY14/15.