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Fruit Industry Gears Up for a Productive Export Season

Paarl, 8 November 2024 — Transnet’s Cape Town Terminals, including both the Cape Town Container Terminal (CTCT) and the Cape Town Multi-Purpose Terminal (CTMPT), are preparing for a successful deciduous fruit export season with a fleet boost of over 70…

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Smart Agri flyers on farm workers and heat waves

Agri workers are in the orchards every day, sunshine, rain, and snow. Please find below posters on easy steps to take when working in heatwave conditions, as part of our climate change awareness campaign and preparation for the upcoming summer…

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Matthew Addison retires

Hortgro’s long-serving crop protection programme manager started his career with the inception of integrated pest management in South African orchards. By Anna Mouton. Although he was born in Johannesburg, Matthew Addison has deeper roots in the deciduous fruit industry than…

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Fire season has started – Are you fire safe?

Runaway veld fires move through landscapes at an astonishing pace, destroying property, natural habitats, and sometimes even lives. Over the past year, several of our production regions were decimated by wildfires. As summer approaches, local fruit producers should fine-tune their…

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CHESTER FISCH WINS AGT 2024

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…

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Brits are loving SA Pink Ladies

South Africa is rapidly establishing itself as the leading and preferred source of Pink Lady apples from the Southern Hemisphere. According to Kantar data, Pink Lady sales in the United Kingdom (UK) have risen by 13% over the past year,…

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Suid-Afrikaanse appels en pere skitter in Indië

Suid-Afrikaanse appels en pere het die Indiese mark  soos die Springbokke se ‘bomb squad’ getref. In so  ‘n mate dat daar kommer oor interne mededinging is. Suid-Afrikaanse soet peer variëteite het ander pere van regoor die wêreld uitgestof en vervang…

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Bielie-pruime, gebed en harde werk

Teks deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp en foto’s Colin Stephenson 2024 is die jaar wat Dean Barnard altyd sal onthou. Nie net is hy die Wes-Kaap se Jongboer van die Jaar nie, maar hy pluk ook die wêreld se grootste pruim. ’n…

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