By Desireé Thompson On 17 September 2024, the Post-Harvest Innovation (PHI) Programme held its Steering Committee meeting at the Hortgro Science offices on the Welgevallen Experimental farm in Stellenbosch. The meeting was followed by project presentations by five PHI researchers…
Research on soil health and orchard floor ecology is an emerging theme in agriculture as it is an important component of sustainability. Hortgro Science Crop Protection Manager, Matthew Addison along with Hendrik Pohl, had the vision to initiate a cover…
PRESS STATEMENT: 11 November 2026 Immediate release Farmers risk losing their buyer, income, and the protection of long-term supply agreements. Fruit growers who invested in orchards to supply the Tulbagh cannery now face losing the buyer around whom they built…
Cape Town, Wednesday – 12 February 2025 — Stakeholders in the export-orientated fruit value chain, together with the Western Cape Government and Transnet Port Terminals, are pleased to announce a new collaboration aimed at enhancing operations at the Cape Town…
Anna Mouton reports on a new programme that empowers producers to select cultivars wisely. A new programme for the evaluation of pome and stone fruit cultivars was recently launched at Klipboschlaagte near Ashton. The Pro-Hort programme is the result of…
Deur Kara van der Berg Produksiebestuurders is leiers op plase en werk met vrugte en mense. Daarom is dit belangrik om nuwe bestuurders toe te rus met die nodige leierskapsvaardighede. Dit is die mening van Pieter Rabe, Suiderland Plase se…
Vrugteprodusente in verskeie dele van die Wes-Kaap tel steeds die koste van die onlangse swaar reën en oorstromings wat groot skade aan plase, infrastruktuur en boorde veroorsaak het. Anthony Dicey van La Plaisant Estate sê die Breërivier en Kleinrivier het…
But due to industry demands, she is busier than ever! By Anna Mouton A respected scientist and academic Prof. Karen Theron recently retired from the Department of Horticultural Science at Stellenbosch University, where she held the Hortgro Chair in Applied…
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) said in a statement to the fresh produce industry that it was disappointed with the results of Project Rebirth at several national fresh produce markets. Project Rebirth, consisting of producers, market agents,…
Feedback from Project Rebirth Meeting By Richard Hurndall Revitalisation of Buffalo City (East London) Fresh Produce Market The Buffalo Market is being used as a case study to highlight one of the successes of the Project Rebirth process. The…
Deur Anton Rabe Teenstrydige interpretasies van die regsgeldigheid van fooie wat tot met ‘n onlangse appelhof uitspraak (14 Julie 2021) deur Prokon vir gelewerde inspeksiedienste verhaal is, terugbetaalbaar sou wees wees al dan nie, skep tans verwarring. Die hofuitspraak handel…
Subsequent to DAFF’s notification of Prokon being assigned to conduct quality inspections on the local market, the fruit industries, while not opposed to inspections in principle, objected, on the basis of lack of consultation, and the scale and costs of…