By Jacques du Preez Despite all the meetings from the operational level to Minister Pravin Gordhan and the National Logistics Crisis Committee under the auspices of the President we are finding ourselves in a dire situation with all the ports…
By Jacques Dommisse In the last decade, duplicated gatekeeping systems under the auspices of the globally embraced and accelerating concepts of environmental sustainability, fair labour practice and the buzzword of climate change by international compliance institutions based in primarily First…
Yvonne Erwee gesels oor haar ervarings in boerderybestuur. Deur Anna Mouton Hortgro het die bedryfsleierskapprogram in 2022 geloods om jong mense as toekomstige bedryfsleiers in die sagtevrugtebedryf te help toerus deur hulle aan bedryfstrukture en -programme bloot te stel. Yvonne…
Farming is a labour intensive operation and there where you have lots of people together, there is always social pressure. Not coping with the pressure leads to social deterioration. And handling social deterioration becomes a social responsibility. To cope, you…
There’s no doubt that SA is rugby-mad. The Springboks’ majestic World Cup win – for the fourth time – is still fresh in our memories. The deciduous fruit industry recently had its own Rugby Cup – a one-day tournament between…
Tien jaar gelede was Anton Rabe, Hortgro se uitvoerende direkteur, op pad erens heen, toe die gedagte hom skielik tref…daar is Idols, America’s Got Talent…hoekom nie ook Agri’s Got Talent nie? “Ons landbouwerkers het soveel meer om te gee as…
Debbie Schreuder het in Prins Alfred Hamlet grootgeword en reeds tydens haar skoolvakansies ervaring in vrugtepakhuise opgebou. Sy het ’n B.Com. in logistiek aan Universiteit Stellenbosch voltooi en haar loopbaan by ’n vervoermaatskappy begin. In 2009 het sy na Delecta…
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…
Text and picture by Gerrit Rautenbach Jason Baartman is a man who lives passionately for agriculture. At first, he sometimes wondered why he didn’t opt for something like law or engineering or the like. Maybe he felt inferior about being…
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…
Drie vroue van Achtervlei, Piket-Bo-Berg, trap diep landbouspore. Vroue wat Nietzsche lees, bekommerd is oor gemeenskapstrauma, die omgewing, wat somme in hul drome maak en nuwe produkte ontwikkel wat supermarkte laat toustaan. Elise-Marie Steenkamp het gaan inloer. Deidré Eigelaar: Die…
Gerrit van der Merwe is die derde generasie vrugteprodusent op die plaas Fonteintjie in die Koue Bokkeveld. Hy het sy B.Sc.Agric. met hortologie en landbou-ekonomie aan Universiteit Stellenbosch voltooi en aangebly vir ’n M.Sc.Agric. onder leiding van Prof. Wiehann Steyn…