By Elise-Marie Steenkamp In 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa deemed gender-based violence (GBV) a secondary pandemic in South Africa with more than 20 women and children murdered in the first four months of lockdown, and five of these cases happening in…
South Africa’s fruit industry is continuing its fight against fruit flies with a world-recognised best practice tool in its pest management arsenal: aerial baiting. The Fruit Fly Africa (FFA) team has launched its 2024/25 aerial baiting programme as part of…
By Dianca Yssel How did De Rust come about? De Rust is situated in the Elgin Valley. The farming business is split in two: They have 150 hectares of apples and pears, as well as 72 hectares of vineyards for…
Te oordeel aan die genot wat landbouwerkers uit Philani se ‘Volwasse Man’ en ‘Voluit Vrou’-kursusse put, is dit opleiding wat op die platteland broodnodig is. Op HORTGRO se aanbeveling word die kursusse vanjaar op 25 plase aan lede van die…
By Maggie Mouton Thanks to an initiative by Hortgro and the Fruit Workers’ Development Trust (FWDT), social workers are currently boosting agricultural workers morale on 25 Western Cape farms registered with the Trust. “The morale boosting one-day course fits in…
Apols and Sofia Kamfer from Bronaar recently completed the Philani training courses: Adult Man and Complete Woman, respectively. They spoke openly about the positive effect the programme had on their personal lives and their marriage. Apols is a spray operator…
Deur Carmé Naudé Moenie luister na die geraas nie, maar na die musiek. Dít was die oorhoofse boodskap vanjaar by Agri Wes-Kaap se Jongboer-jaarvergadering. Die oggend van die 22ste Mei het afgeskop met ’n paneelbespreking oor die geleenthede van grondhervorming…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Die volhoubaarheid van die Suid-Afrikaanse droëvrugtebedryf word geteister deur talle uitdagings, maar elke probleem is oorkombaar deur noukeurig huiswerk te doen en besigheidsrats te bly. Altesaam 60 bedryfsverteenwoordigers en produsente het vroeg in September buite Rawsonville byeengekom…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Die Koue Bokkeveld Opleidingsentrum (KBOS) het weereens ’n waardevolle bydrae tot gemeenskapsontwikkeling in die Witzenberg-streek gelewer deur die aanbieding van praktiese Nutsman/Vrou-werkswinkels. Hierdie inisiatief, wat reeds in 2024 afgeskop het, het ontstaan uit frustrasies in die gemeenskap…
By Gerrit Rautenbach He is formally leaving the world of fruit after a long and adventurous journey. You could say it began when Granny Smith was still a teenager, but more accurately, it was in 1976 when he started working…
“‘n Vrugteboer se belegging is sy bome en in enige belegging soek jy lae risiko en hoë dividende en dit is presies wat jy kry as jy in weefselkultuur belê.” Aan die woord is Hortgro se streeksverteenwoordiger in die Limpopo,…
Even though the Western Cape has been blessed with some rain in June, it had little impact on the dire state of the Western Cape dam levels, and the forecast for water-use in the province remains bleak. With calls to…