TARMAKBIR organized a trade mission from 13 to 17 May in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa. The Turkish ag-machinery industry delegates also met with South African businesses to explore opportunities for future partnerships to meet the country’s needs and to promote Turkey-made agriculture machinery. The program started on Monday, May 13, 2024, the delegation first paid a courtesy visit to the Republic of Turkey Ambassador to South Africa (Pretoria) Ayşegül Kandaş and her colleagues. While TARMAKBİR Secretary General M. Selami İleri presented information about the sector to the audience, Kandaş shared some key information about South Africa with the participants. The Commercial Advisor İlker Eralp was also present at the meeting.
TARMAKBİR Delegation, which started its commercial marketing activities on Tuesday, May 14, visited the fair participants individually at their stands in Nampo Park near Bothaville in the Free State province where the NAMPO Fair was held. The fair was first organized in 1967, and has now reached a point where more than 750 participants meet with approximately 100 thousand professional visitors. At the fair held in an open area of 24 hectares, importer companies as well as distributors in the region had the opportunity to exhibit their machines with the stands they opened. Invited distributors came together with our members as part of the B2B meetings held at the fairground on May 14, starting from 14:00. Invited B2B meetings continued on Wednesday, May 15 and Thursday, May 16. Our members had the opportunity to meet with the 22 invited local companies as well as other fair-participating distributors at their stands and introduce their products. Participants also visited agricultural enterprises in the region on Thursday, May 16.
Turkey has a significant export potential for South Africa, which imports agricultural machinery worth 1 billion 190 million dollars as of 2023. The country is also a distribution center for neighboring countries. Considering the import volume and the profit margin in the sector, the country’s agricultural machinery market volume is estimated to be 2.7 billion dollars. Agricultural machinery with high export potential to the Republic of South Africa are tractors, soil tillage, pneumatic sowing machines including stubble sowing, agricultural fighting machines (field and garden type), balers and meadow mowers, weed machines, milking machines, feed preparation machines and irrigation. They are considered as machines. The customs duty rate for agricultural machinery is zero. Türkiye has so far performed relatively well in fertilizer spreading, mowing, and feed preparation machines.
