Dr Ilse Trautmann was recently appointed as Deputy Director-General: Agricultural Research and Regulatory Services (DDG: ARRS) at the Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA). The Branch Agricultural Research and Regulatory Services is one of two branches in the Department and…
Dr Imtiaz Sooliman is the founder and chair of the Gift of the Givers Foundation, the largest non-governmental disaster-response organisation of African origin in Africa. Gift of the Givers has distributed R6 billion in aid in 47 countries over the…
It is with great sadness that Hortgro learned of the passing of Dr Ken L. Pringle, distinguished entomologist and senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Born in 1946, Ken dedicated his career to studying insect pests affecting South Africa’s deciduous fruit…
Hortgro Dried Tree Fruit (DTF) het op 1 September ’n bedryfsinligtingsdag op Robertson gehou om aan produsente en verwerkers terugvoer te gee oor “waar die bedryf staan en waarheen dit gaan” in afwagting op die komende seisoen. Deur Kara van…
Die verkope van pruimedante en pruimedantsap het met die uitbreking van die COVID-19 merkbaar gestyg, sê Chris Krone, vorige president van die Internasionale Pruimedante-Vereniging (International Prune Association/IPA).
Suid-Afrikaanse droogdruifproduksie groei teen ‘n bestendige tempo met produksievolumes vir 2018 wat met 6% sal groei teenoor die vorige jaar. Dit beteken dat die 70 000 ton merk vir rosyne die eerste keer oorskry is, terwyl daar wêreldwyd ‘n vraag na…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Snags, terwyl ander slaap, lê die vrugteboere van die Klein-Karoo wakker. Hulle tob oor die pad vorentoe. By watter boorde moet hulle die krane toedraai? Watter blokke moet gered word? Watter moet afgekap word? Indien hul heraanplant,…
By Kara van der Berg The aftermath of the drought that hit the Klein Karoo in 2016 is still being felt by the area’s farmers even though the drought technically ended two years ago. “The drought had different effects on different…
DROUGHT CRISIS TEACHES RESILIENCE By Grethe Bestbier Last season’s drought taught us much more than that what we already know about water management, irrigation, mulching, and other water-efficient techniques. But most importantly, it demonstrated the resilience of the deciduous fruit…
Introduction In the Western Cape of South Africa, all eyes have been focused on the taps during the 2017-18 summer. Dust storms could be seen clouding the sky above bare dams as shown in Figure 1. Three dry winters in…
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp Transformation and economic reform in agriculture are some of the biggest challenges that South Africa faces today and that is why the Deciduous Fruit Development Chamber’s commercialization programme, the Jobs Fund Project (JFP), is such a beacon…
Oor die Bokveld se stories, streke en karakters kan mens sekerlik ‘n dik boek skryf. Net in een familie kom mens Piet Kalifornië, Piet van Die Bos, en Piet Parlement teë. En nou ook, hoewel aangetroud, Pierre du Toit. Of…