The guide to good housing
As a rule, most farmers are keen to provide adequately for their workers, especially when it comes to housing. Because a happy homer is a hard worker. Yet, to get to the honeypot, it’s best to follow the guidelines. By…
‘Ownership is not transformation’
For South African agriculture to transform and be sustainable, uncomfortable conversations are needed, and issues robustly discussed without pointing fingers. Hortgro Executive Director, Anton Rabe, and Hortgro Group Operations Manager, Mariette Kotze, addressed the meeting at the PALS annual general…
South Africa’s Apple and Pear Exports to China Show Countertrend Growth
Due to adverse weather events like hail and floods earlier in the year, Hortgro has revised its export forecasts for the 2023 season. The estimated export volume for apples is 40.883 million cartons (12.5 kilograms per carton), showing a 10%…
Free State Strategic Engagement
A group of high-ranking government officials from the Free State government and a team from the Remmoho Group, visited Hortgro early in August to explore possible collaboration and get a better understanding of the deciduous fruit industry in South Africa.…
Snuitkewernavorser help eie “genetiese biblioteek” vir Suid-Afrikaanse spesies skep
Deur Engela Duvenage Kleintyd het ‘n boek in Benoni se biblioteek die eerste keer dr. Steffan Hansen se belangstelling in snuitkewers (ook bekend as kalanders) geprikkel. Oor die jare het sy belangstelling in insekte sodanig gegroei dat dié 25-jarige onlangs…
23rd Congress of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa
By Minette Karsten The 23rd Congress of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa (ESSA) took place in Stellenbosch between 12 and 14 July 2023. The congress was organised by a team of entomologists at Stellenbosch University (Profs. Pia Addison, John…
Inmaakvrugtebedryf fokus op positiewe toekoms
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp “Produsente het dikwels nie beheer oor wat buite hul plase gebeur nie. Daarom moet hulle ’n positiewe ingesteldheid oor die toekoms hê, want as daardie boompie in die grond gesit word weet ons dit is nog vyf…
Ceres Fruit Growers herdenk honderdjarige bestaan
Die visie van Ceres-produsente het ’n blywende erfenis aan die hedendaagse vrugtebedryf en Ceres-gemeenskap gelaat. Deur Anna Mouton. In 1922–23 het Suid-Afrikaanse vrugte-uitvoere vir die eerste maal 1 miljoen houtkissies in ’n enkele seisoen oorskry. Vrugteprodusente het die noodsaaklikheid van…
AFRICAN VOICE NEEDED TO NEGOTIATE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp In May, CropLife South Africa and CropLife Africa and the Middle East hosted several workshops where they called on South African agriculture to work together with their counterparts in other African countries to create an “African voice”…
Kernvrugbedryf beleef stormagtige seisoen
Wydverspreide hael het beduidende verliese veroorsaak maar goeie reëns en koue bring gunstige vooruitsigte vir die komende seisoen. Deur Anna Mouton. Op 3 November 2022 is die Witzenbergvallei deur strawwe hael getref wat ernstige skade aan appel- en peerboorde berokken…
Intended phase-out of active ingredients and products classified as CMR categories 1A and 1B
Background On 14 April 2022 the Registrar of Act No. 36 of 1947 published a letter informing agricultural remedy registration holders in South Africa of his intention to prohibit the use of agricultural remedies (products) that contain one or more…
Oom Koos Lötter se boek postuum bekend gestel
Die legendariese hortoloog Koos Lötter se boek: Die beginsels van wondgenesing en oorwerk van vrugtebome is Dinsdagaand tydens die Hortgro Toekennings 2023 bekend gestel. “Oom Koos” soos hy algemeen bekend was, is op 29 Oktober 2019 op die ouderdom van…