South Africa, Wheat, 2012

South Africa's estimated postharvest losses for wheat in 2012 was 185,272 tonnes or 9.7% which had an estimated value of more than 70 million US dollar, which corresponds to 0.8% of national agricultural GDP.

As for nutrition 613 billion kcal were lost, which is the equivalent of more than 686 thousand people, in terms of annual nutritional dietary energy requirements. In the value chain, the majority of the loss is estimated to be happening at Harvesting/field drying, Household-level storage, and then Market storage. Highest estimated postharvest maize losses in tonnes were estimated to occur in Free State.

Production quantity and estimated postharvest losses

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Value chain

Production quantity and estimated postharvest losses in % per value chain step. Please note that once loss has occurred at harvesting, the percentage loss in the next stage is a percentage of what remained, not of the original amount.

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Nutrition

Number of people whose annual dietary requirements (in terms of energy, kcal) could have been met by consuming the wheat that was lost postharvest, and what % of the focal group of the population this number equates to.

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