Read the following extract and answer question? SA agri posts trade surplus in despite ongoing Covid challenges The agriculture sector was able to operate during the various lockdown periods due to it being considered an essential service. Weather also came to the party and allowed for an excellent agriculture season which saw record crops across most commodities with the grain and oilseed crop topping 17.07m tonnes which is almost 2% higher year-on-year. Despite logistical challenges, the sector managed to move hefty quantity of produce to the rest of the world with the second quarter of 2021 recording a trade surplus of US$1.5m which is 40% ahead of the same period in 2020. Then follows a 36% year-on-year spike in total agriculture exports in quarter two of 2021 at US$3.2bn, bringing the total 1H2021 export value to US$6.1bn which is 30% higher year-on-year…The overall good export revenue was underpinned by strong export demand despite the Q2 Rand exchange rate appreciation of 6% quarter-on-quarter and 21% relative to the second quarter at R14.09/ US$. The average exchange rate appreciation for the first half of 2021 was a whopping 13% relative to the same period in 2020… A nation’s gross domestic product is… a) C + I + G + (X-M) b) The total amount of money in circulation c) The total market value of all the intermediate goods and services d) The sum of value added at some stages of the production process
Read the following extract and answer question?
SA agri posts trade surplus in despite ongoing Covid challenges
The agriculture sector was able to operate during the various lockdown periods due to it being considered an essential service. Weather also came to the party and allowed for an excellent agriculture season which saw
record crops across most commodities with the grain and oilseed crop topping 17.07m tonnes which is almost 2% higher year-on-year.
Despite logistical challenges, the sector managed to move hefty quantity of produce to the rest of the world with the second quarter of 2021 recording a trade surplus of US$1.5m which is 40% ahead of the same period in
2020. Then follows a 36% year-on-year spike in total agriculture exports in quarter two of 2021 at US$3.2bn, bringing the total 1H2021 export value to US$6.1bn which is 30% higher year-on-year…The overall good export revenue was underpinned by strong export demand despite the Q2 Rand exchange rate appreciation of 6% quarter-on-quarter and 21% relative to the second quarter at R14.09/ US$. The average exchange rate appreciation for the first half of 2021 was a whopping 13% relative to the same period in 2020…
A nation’s gross domestic product is…
a) C + I + G + (X-M)
b) The total amount of money in circulation
c) The total market value of all the intermediate goods and services
d) The sum of value added at some stages of the production process
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