[TOP STORY] Consumers set to dig deeper for potatoes from September

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‘Indications are that it’s about 7.4 million 10-kilogram bags that will be lost as a result of black frost. So that is the extent of the damage,’ says Paul Makube, agriculture economist at FNB.
30 Aug 2024 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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