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We take a look at South Africa's exports of potatoes in more detail. How many kilograms of potatoes did we export during 2019? Who did we export these potatoes to and what was the overall value of our potato exports in 2019?
Note the period looked at covers January 2019 to November 2019. And all data is obtained from South African Revenue Service |
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South Africa's potato exports for 2019 looked at in more detail
So lets take a look at the main destinations that South Africa's potato exports are heading to. The summary below shows the countries South Africa exports potatoes to (ranked from highest to lowest in terms of total value of potatoes exports) from January 2019 to November 2019
- Botswana: R 65 721 386
- Namibia: R 26 902 859
- Zambia: R 13 087 885
- Swaziland: R 12 938 458
- Mozambique: R 3 978 948
- Malawi: R 1 682 453
- Zimbabwe: R 370 836
- Democratic Republic Of Congo: R 218 285
- Togo: R 164 978
- Ethiopia: R 119 380
- Saint Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha: R 51 699
- Nigeria: R 29 439
- Lesotho: R 19 615
- Qatar: R 12 820
- Seychelles: R 7 446
- Georgia: R 6 404
- Germany: R 241
- France: R 100
- Botswana: 4 074 136
- Namibia: 1 526 539
- Swaziland: 792 986
- Zambia: 789 821
- Mozambique: 114 963
- Malawi: 96 669
- Togo: 26 400
- Zimbabwe: 21 750
- Ethiopia: 19 230
- Democratic Republic Of Congo: 16 750
- Nigeria: 2 890
- Saint Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha: 1 356
- Lesotho: 302
- Seychelles: 175
- Georgia: 130
- Qatar: 98
- Germany: 31
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Price per kilogram of potatoes per country?
The summary below shows the price per kilogram of potatoes exported from South Africa per country for the period January 2019 to November 2019:
One has to wonder about the accuracy of some of the information collected and published by the South African Revenue Service. The question is why would Qatar pay R131.35 per kilogram of potatoes from South African when the average price in 2019 for South Africa's potato exports was R16.70 per kilogram? Even South Africa's inland neighbor of Lesotha can hardly afford to spend any money, let alone dish out 4 times the average price per kilogram of potatoes exported from South Africa.
In total from January 2019 to November 2019 South Africa exported 7.484 million kilograms of potatoes at a total value of R125.315 million, with 52.4% of South Africa's potato exports heading to Botswana and 21.5% of South Africa's potato exports heading to Namibia. Zambia was the third biggest export destination for South Africa's potato exports with it importing R13.1 million worth of potatoes from South Africa. Overall the bulk of South Africa's potato exports in 2019 went to other African countries with hardly any of South Africa's potatoes being exported to Asia, Europe or the Americas.
- Qatar: R 131.35
- Lesotho: R 64.95
- Georgia: R 49.26
- France: R 43.48
- Seychelles: R 42.57
- Saint Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha: R 38.13
- Mozambique: R 34.61
- Namibia: R 17.62
- Malawi: R 17.40
- Zimbabwe: R 17.05
- Zambia: R 16.57
- Swaziland: R 16.32
- Botswana: R 16.13
- Democratic Republic Of Congo: R 13.03
- Nigeria: R 10.19
- Germany: R 7.77
- Togo: R 6.25
- Ethiopia: R 6.21
One has to wonder about the accuracy of some of the information collected and published by the South African Revenue Service. The question is why would Qatar pay R131.35 per kilogram of potatoes from South African when the average price in 2019 for South Africa's potato exports was R16.70 per kilogram? Even South Africa's inland neighbor of Lesotha can hardly afford to spend any money, let alone dish out 4 times the average price per kilogram of potatoes exported from South Africa.
In total from January 2019 to November 2019 South Africa exported 7.484 million kilograms of potatoes at a total value of R125.315 million, with 52.4% of South Africa's potato exports heading to Botswana and 21.5% of South Africa's potato exports heading to Namibia. Zambia was the third biggest export destination for South Africa's potato exports with it importing R13.1 million worth of potatoes from South Africa. Overall the bulk of South Africa's potato exports in 2019 went to other African countries with hardly any of South Africa's potatoes being exported to Asia, Europe or the Americas.