The South African deciduous fruit industry is reeling under the impact of the recent floods in key production areas, particularly in Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp (EGVV), parts of the Klein Karoo, and Franschhoek. During crisis talks with the Western…
MEDIA STATEMENT Finalists of the Agri Western Cape Santam Young Farmer of the Year competition Agri Western Cape is proud to announce the eight finalists of the 2025 Agri Western Cape Santam Young Farmer of the Year competition––an award that…
Hortgro recently joined an international dialogue hosted by Stellenbosch’s Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) and members of a Global Convening Working Group on Just Transitions in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Just Transitions in AMR are about finding solutions…
By Gerrit Rautenbach Dibesho Serage, Managing Director of Groundstone Group grew up in Lebowakgomo township of Limpopo Province where he did his primary and high school studies. His mother was a school teacher and Dad owned a small all-purpose shop…
Om te verseker dat Suid-Afrikaanse produsente hulle vrugte oorsee kan bemark is ’n voltydse werk. Deur Anna Mouton. Lindi Benić is die gesamentlike marktoegangbestuurder vir Hortgro en SATI. Marktoegang behels veel meer as net toegang werf tot nuwe markte. “Mense…
Bedryfskenners gee raad Deur Anna Mouton “Ek het in die twintig jaar wat ek boer al amper 150 hektaar vrugte geplant,” vertel Hendrik Pohl, ZZ2 se produksiebestuurder op Bokveldskloof, Ceres. “My pa het bykans niks geplant nie, want hy’t geboer…
Anna Mouton het met ‘n paar tegniese bedryfskenners gepraat oor die afgelope kernvrugseisoen. Dit lyk asof produsente se vertroue groei na aanleiding van goeie vrugvolumes en -kwaliteit tesame met sterk markaanvraag. “Ek dink met ’n gemiddelde appelboer gaan dit nou…
Dr Ilse Trautmann was recently appointed as Deputy Director-General: Agricultural Research and Regulatory Services (DDG: ARRS) at the Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA). The Branch Agricultural Research and Regulatory Services is one of two branches in the Department and…
Dr Imtiaz Sooliman is the founder and chair of the Gift of the Givers Foundation, the largest non-governmental disaster-response organisation of African origin in Africa. Gift of the Givers has distributed R6 billion in aid in 47 countries over the…
Hortgro Dried Tree Fruit (DTF) het op 1 September ’n bedryfsinligtingsdag op Robertson gehou om aan produsente en verwerkers terugvoer te gee oor “waar die bedryf staan en waarheen dit gaan” in afwagting op die komende seisoen. Deur Kara van…
Press release January 2018 Drought challenges fruit industry Western Cape fruit farmers and rural communities are under tremendous socio-economic pressure due to the crippling drought, according to the deciduous fruit industry organisation, Hortgro. Hortgro is concerned about the unfounded and…