For any operation, the quality of its management team’s leadership skills is crucial, and there is a direct positive correlation between business performance and effective leadership behaviour. To assist our member’s leaders to become more self-aware and cultivate their management…
This year HORTGRO is contributing R3,7 million in bursaries and training at higher education institutions nationwide, including Stellenbosch University, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Elsenburg, and the universities of Limpopo, Pretoria and Free State.
Hortgro awards the Izithelo Media Award annually for outstanding journalism in and about the deciduous fruit (pome/stone) industry. The deciduous fruit industry’s journalism merit award focuses on ensuring continuous, constructive engagement between the fruit industry and the media. Winner: Dewald…
The entry cut-off date has been changed to 13 July 2026 by 8:00 am Step forward. Share your impact. Inspire change. Hortgro has launched a new award, the Hortgro Footprint Award, which will be presented at our annual awards ceremony on 11…
Over the next few months we will highlight some of the projects and programmes at HORTGRO. This month Elise-Marie Steenkamp talks to Louis van Zyl, HORTGRO’s General Manager, and his admin and financial team who do astonishing work for the deciduous…
Procuring academic excellence to solve industry problems A team from Hortgro recently met with Stellenbosch University (SU) Rector, Prof Wim de Villiers, and his senior management team to align the strategic goals of both parties. Hortgro’s current investment in research…
During September 2021 the following information was shared with the respective Hortgro Pome and Hortgro Stone producer councils regarding the 2021-22 budgets: Council members received the draft 2021-2022 budgets for discussion/approval at the two council meetings (Stone, 8 September and Pome,…
Hortgro is in die pylvak om befondsing te kry vir ‘n navorsingsprojek wat gaan kyk na die vermoë van die swam wat deur die stompkopkewer gedra word, om sagtevrugtebome asook algemene windbreekboomspesies te infekteer. Die stompkopkewer (Polyphagous shot hole borer/PSHB)…
As communicated late last year, Hortgro and the DFDC’s paths have separated given differences specifically relating to the positioning of the DFDC as a parallel operating structure to Hortgro, operational duplication of functions, and increased confusion about identity amongst interest…
In an effort to inform interested growers, researchers, and other industry stakeholders of the scope, context, and content of Hortgro Science’s research offering, a Showcase was held in Stellenbosch last week. Despite buckets of rain and plummeting temperatures the three-day…
To present years of work in five minutes is a big challenge for anyone. Yet, that is precisely what Hortgro Science asked researchers to do at this year’s Research Showcase. This was only the second time that the Showcase was…
