Investor Presentaiton
1. The key characteristics of the South African primary and secondary
dairy industries are:
Market-orientated and not production-orientated;
Structure, driven by competition (more competitive enterprises grow at the
expense of the less competitive enterprises);
Dynamic (new technologies, knowledge and changing needs of consumers);
Complex (different scientific fields of knowledge);
Demanding (24 hours, 365 days per year and knowledge intensive);
Critical daily dependence on service delivery by public sector at national,
provincial and local authority levels (roads, electricity, water, security,
inspection services, prevention and control of animal diseases);
Producers of unprocessed milk not a homogeneous group (pasture-based or
total-mixed-rations, dry land or irrigated pastures and crops for silage and
hay, geographical location, climate region, management and monitoring of
individual animals, different breeds, breeding, soil, water, seasonality of
production, composition of unprocessed milk, involvement in
complementary production);
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