Chester Fisch made everyone feel the music when he won Agri’s Got Talent 2024 (AGT 2024) on Friday night, 11 October, at Dawn Mountains, Simondium, with the famous Michael Jackson hit “The Way You Make Me Feel.” It was not…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Sy ma het die dag voor sy geboorte onder ’n pruimedantboom gestaan en gevoel dat die baba dalk vroeër gaan kom as beplan. Die dokter het gewaarsku dat dit ’n brugbaba en moeilike bevalling gaan wees. Die…
Christi Van den Heever (38) is vas oortuig dat Suid-Afrikaanse landbou ’n blink toekoms het. Anna Mouton het 2023 se Agri Wes-Kaap Santam Jongboer van die Jaar ontmoet. Van den Heever het in Namakwaland grootgeword maar reeds op ouderdom sewe…
Dit is waar dat daar nog te min vroue in die Suid-Afrikaanse landbousektor is. Christine Hanekom, bemarkingsbestuurder by Stems Fruit, het aan Kara van der Berg vertel dat vroue wel ’n belangrike plek in die bedryf het. Christine Hanekom het…
The technical production story of the recent pome fruit season concluded with a fairly happy ending given plot twists such as extreme weather events, “reliable” cultivars underperforming, and a global pandemic that almost single-handedly disrupted the fruit value chain. Despite…
There are already many clinical studies that demonstrate the benefits of eating more fruit and vegetables. What stands out about a recently reviewed study published by Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts in American Academy of…
Climate change is everyone’s problem. As activism grows, the necessity for sustainable and ethical agri-production practices is more critical than ever. Find the Confronting Climate Change deciduous fruit benchmark reports for the period 2023 to 2025, here: 2025 Pome Fruit…
Many outsiders scoff and say that agricultural sector has been “lucky” in that it did not have to close down as a whole during any of the COVID-19 lockdown phases. Those in the know, however, realise just how stressful the…
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp “We are all in the same storm, but not in the same boat. And we have to be aware that everyone’s boat is different and changing all the time.” This was the message from Dr Colinda Linde,…
Hortgro’s first Daan Strydom Research and Technical prize is awarded to Henk Griessel in recognition and appreciation of a career dedicated to the deciduous fruit industry in the field of postharvest quality of pome fruit. Henk lectured at the University…
Women still make up a smaller proportion than men in the agriculture industry in South Africa, especially in managerial positions. According to StatsSA, although women account for 43.4% of the total employment in agriculture only 33.1% of those who work…
Press release: 10 September 2021 The South African deciduous fruit industry on Friday honoured individuals for excellence at the 46th Fruit Industry Gala Awards—in a year marked by unusual challenges and successes. Scaled down from the usual illustrious affair, the…