LOW MAIZE EXPORT PREDICTED

THE local maize industry said on Wednesday that it expects to export 800000 tons of maize during the next marketing year (2000/1). According to a survey some 690000 tons of white maize and 110000 tons of yellow maize will be exported. 1998/9 saw over a million tons of maize leave the country; half of the tonnage to be exported in 1996/7. However the forecasts are so far up on the current year ending April 1, in which just of 500000 tons has left South Africa’s borders.