FRESH PRODUCE MARKET INQUIRY: PROVISIONAL REPORT PUBLISHED
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19 June 2024
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Trade, Industry & Competition
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SA Legal Academy
The Competition Commission’s fresh produce market inquiry has identified a raft of shortcomings in municipal fresh produce markets nationwide. As a result, provisional recommendations for improving these markets feature prominently in a recently published report, among other things targeting:
- infrastructure maintenance
- operating and governance
- funding
- access by small-scale farmers and those from historically disadvantaged communities (to some extent attributed to disparities in municipal by-laws), and
- market agents and their practices.
Other factors found to be distorting competition by creating barriers to new market entrants include:
- agrochemical industry practices (the document refers expressly to ‘exclusive clauses and territorial allocation’), and
- ‘exploitative prices’ in the seeds industry.
Stakeholders have until 16 July 2024 to comment on the provisional report.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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