# Agbiz chief economist Wandile Sihlobo says despite recent heavy rains in the Western Cape, the wheat crop looks promising with only some areas too wet for optimal growth. The province is responsible for over two-thirds of South Africa’s winter wheat production. Sihlobo says if weather conditions, particularly in the Western Cape improve for the rest of the season and a five-year average yield of three-thousand-78 tonnes per hectare in 502-thousand hectares is achieved, the country could have a winter wheat harvest of 1.89-million tonnes.
Western Cape wheat crop looks promising despite heavy rains