1 / 34

Presenter name Subject

ABSA AgriBusiness Agric-Economic Outlook 1 October 2009. Presenter name Subject. Discussion agenda. Macro economic trends – World social spend supports agriculture Agricultural insights - Golden days for agriculture is back Africa the new frontier – Food security

raanan
Download Presentation

Presenter name Subject

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. ABSA AgriBusiness Agric-Economic Outlook 1 October 2009 Presenter name Subject

  2. Discussion agenda • Macro economic trends – World social spend supports agriculture • Agricultural insights - Golden days for agriculture is back • Africa the new frontier – Food security • Commodity outlook for Selected Agricultural commodities

  3. Economic outlook – Supply and demand

  4. Summery of world economic impact on South African Agriculture • Shift in world soft commodity demand • After capitalism replaced communism as economic system in the late 90’s world economic growth increased to more than 4.9% per annum for the four years preceding 2008 • This lead to a shift in demand with a resulting increase in commodity prices • The demand for bio-fuels also impacted positively on commodity prices • Commodity prices was further supported by lower world stocks • Food demand remain sticky • In 2008 - 2009 world experienced a financial meltdown • World wide approximately one billion jobs will be lost during 2009 • In SA approximately 600 000 jobs is expected to be lost in 2009 • If you loos your job you loos your house and your car but you do not loos the need to eat • In a world economic crisis the poor of the poor (job less) is supported by social spend (Dole, Workmen's compensation, Food stamps, Social spend) supporting demaand. The net result is higher commodity prices in spite of a world economic meltdown

  5. Exchange rate impact on South African Agriculture

  6. Economic outlook – Balance of Payment • Exchange rate indicators • The rand will continue to strengthen against the US Dollar and Chinese currencies while the dollar will tend to weaken against the Euro • This is mainly due to the link between the US dollar and the Chinese Yuan as well as the current account deficit of the US (- 3% of GDP) • The Rand is expected to continue to weaken against the bulk of the other currencies

  7. Economic outlook – Inflation • Pointers • Due to higher inflation in 2007 and 2008 the Reserve Bank increased interests rates in a bid to control inflation. • All indication are that inflation is under control and it is expected that inflation will continue to decline creating some leeway for the Reserve Bank to lower interest rates even further.

  8. Discussion agenda • Macro economic trends – World social spend supports agriculture • Agricultural insights - Golden days for agriculture is back • Africa the new frontier – Food security • Commodity outlook for Selected Agricultural commodities

  9. Effective Market

  10. Primary agricultural confidence index

  11. Discussion agenda • Macro economic trends – World social spend supports agriculture • Agricultural insights - Golden days for agriculture is back • Africa the new frontier – Food security • Commodity outlook for Selected Agricultural commodities

  12. Polar area Mountain area Tundra / Taiga Moderate Mediterranean Dry grasslands Desert Subtropical Tropical Climatic topography World Climatic topography

  13. Market environment – World Market growth potential (2) • Pointers • Production growth potential for 2050 must be viewed against expected growth in demand of approximately 40 – 60 % over the same period • This is mainly the result of an expected population growth rate of between 0,9% to 1,1% and improvements in the economic welfare of consumers due to economic growth. • Only a portion of economic growth will impact on the growth in demand for food as food is classified as one of the basic needs.

  14. Market environment – World market growth potential (3) • Pointers • In the short term stiff competition in terms of production expansion will come from South America. • The most significant untapped opportunity is Africa • As production expansion exceed demand expectations, prices of soft commodities will remain fairly depressed forcing farmers to improve efficiencies. This is only possible if producers incorporate new technology to improve efficiencies or use efficiencies of scale.

  15. Discussion agenda • Macro economic trends – World social spend supports agriculture • Agricultural insights - Golden days for agriculture is back • Africa the new frontier – Food security • Commodity outlook for Selected Agricultural commodities

  16. Summery – every thing is market driven

  17. World maize trends

  18. South African maize trends

  19. Expected SA yellow maize price trends

  20. Expected SA white maize price trends

  21. Poultry production trends

  22. Poultry Price trends

  23. SA Beef prices

  24. Mutton Price trends

  25. Thank you for the opportunity to share some ideas Contact details E Janovsky Tel (011) 350 6102 Emailernst.janovsky@absa.co.za

More Related