Wednesday, April 11, 2007

S.Africa white maize slides after millers back CEC

(Reuters) - South Africa's most traded white maize slid over 1 percent on Wednesday after the country's Chamber of Milling backed the government's forecast for the 2006/07 maize harvest.

Jannie de Villiers, executive director of the chamber, said on Wednesday the group believed the crop would be roughly in line with the 6.9 million tonnes forecast by South Africa's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC).


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