Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. That was correctly said. The strategy is basically to keep the market responsible for the sufficiency of food, but not to interfere with the pricing of maize. That is the strategy at the moment and then your backup strategy is social security plans when people can't afford the basic foods.
But, maize is more than just maize meal. It is like gold used to be in the old days for the economy as a whole. It is the basis of food pricing in South Africa. Marvellous things are thus produced from maize in general, but it gives the trend for the whole food pricing market. So you have to watch it all the time, but interference will not - I strongly believe - give the results that you will have. You must give the assistance for food security in another way, otherwise, you are going to get scarcity of production.
At the moment a lot of emerging farmers in maize farming and cattle farming depend on maize farming, especially yellow maize. We have seen that if the price goes too low for them, like we experienced with meat, emerging farmers would suddenly start to sell cattle on a far larger scale than previously, because the price of meat was going up. We must get that balance and keep in our minds that emerging farmers must eventually, if we reach figures of over 30%, be able to make a living, otherwise no one would want to go into farming, and certainly not maize farming. But maize farming is the basis in the sense that our whole meat industry is, for example, dependent on that. At the moment I am worried about the rain in the Free State because that's where the majority of wheat is being produced. Thank you.