Where the agricultural sector stands at the end of the State of Disaster on Energy
[{“type”:”text”,”content”:”When the State of Disaster was first mooted, Agri SA u2013 amongst others u2013 was openly sceptical about the likely effectiveness of this intervention. Indeed, it was our view that government could do much without such a declaration. Having taken a different perspective, the government enacted the disaster regulations (which it was then forced to withdraw), but it remains unclear what this accomplished.nThe government has argued that it was able to put measures in place to “enhance interventions by the National Energy Crisis Committee in terms of the Energy Action Plan””. While it’s difficult to point to these ‘enhancements’