The National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) has extended an invitation to directly affected groups to register and update their details on “Register of Directly Affected Groups”. A “directly affected group” means any group of persons which is party to the production, sale, purchase, processing or consumption of an agricultural product and includes labour employed in the production or processing of such a product. An invitation has been extended to directly affected groups to comment to the Sorghum Trust on a statutory measure (levy) on sorghum in terms of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act – R10,00 per ton sorghum, excluding Value-added Tax (VAT) payable by the buyers, processors, importers and exporters of sorghum, for four years. The existing sorghum levy of R16.00 per ton sorghum, VAT excluded, will lapse on 28 February 2014. Comments are due by 14 February 2014.