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NAMPO VIRTUAL: The show goes online

For over 60 years, the Nampo Harvest Day (Nampo) has been an important date on the agricultural calendar. With over 75 000 visitors last year, as well as 680 exhibitors, it was expected that 2020 would be much the same, only with more visitors and more exhibitors. Then, in March this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a national lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. In line with the lockdown regulations that banned gatherings of more than 50 people, Grain SA initially announced that Nampo 2020, which was due to take place mid-May, would be postponed until August. When it became clear

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