SOFT CITRUS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
As the curtain comes down on the 2021 season for South Africa’s fastest growing citrus category, it is clear that growth in soft citrus is not over yet. Over the past ten years, soft citrus [...]
SOUTH AFRICA EXPORTS RECORD VOLUMES OF ORANGES
According to Justin Chadwick of the Citrus Growers’ Association, South Africa has exported record volumes of navel oranges, The association’s CEO said that 27.2 million cartons had been achieved, just ahead of the 26.7 million [...]
SOUTH AFRICAN GRAPEFRUIT GROWERS FLATTEN THE CURVE THROUGH AN EARLY START
There will be enough grapefruit for all markets during the six-month period that South Africa is the lone grapefruit supplier, and the internal quality conforms to market requirements, says Piet Smit, CEO of the Letsitele-based [...]
ZEST FRUIT GERRIE BERNER TENNIS TOURNAMENT 2021
For the 3rd year in a row Paul Roos Gymnasium was crowned the winners of the very prestigious Zest Fruit Gerrie Berner Tennis Festival that was played in the Winelands in Stellenbosch over the [...]
SOUTH AFRICA CITRUS INDUSTRY TO BREAK RECORDS
The South Africa citrus industry will likely break all export season records with an estimated 158.7 million cartons in 2021, the Citrus Growers Association of Southern Africa (CGA) reported recently. If the estimate is reached, [...]
GOOD NEWS FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN CITRUS INDUSTRY
At the beginning of 2020, the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service citrus annual report predicted that the South African citrus industry would continue to grow strongly in the production and export of soft citrus, lemons, and [...]
HOW SOUTH AFRICA’S AGRICULTURAL EXPORTERS AVERTED A COVID-19 DISASTER
As a net exporter of many agricultural products, South Africa’s agricultural industry would have been in dire straits had it failed to adapt to the difficulties presented by Covid-19. But quick thinking and rapid adjustments [...]
SA takes proactive approach to FCM
For the first time since 2018 when the South African citrus industry introduced its False Codling Moth Management System, the citrus industry has had to intervene in its normal functioning to manage false codling moth. [...]
12-14 million people will move to cities over next 15 years
The South African Bureau for Agricultural and Food Policy expects the country’s economic recovery to be a prolonged process “with real GDP only projected to exceed 2019 levels by 2026”, according to their newly released [...]