Alexander Gibson van Doornkraal Agri is een van die eerste groep jong mense wat Hortgro se bedryfleierskapprogram voltooi het. Deur Anna Mouton. Hortgro het die program in 2022 geloods om jong mense in die sagtevrugtebedryf as toekomstige bedryfsleiers te help…
Die legendariese hortoloog Koos Lötter se boek: Die beginsels van wondgenesing en oorwerk van vrugtebome is Dinsdagaand tydens die Hortgro Toekennings 2023 bekend gestel. “Oom Koos” soos hy algemeen bekend was, is op 29 Oktober 2019 op die ouderdom van…
Suid-Afrikaanse vrugte moet fitosanitêre vereistes nakom vir toegang tot sekere sleutelmarkte. Hoe word hierdie vereistes bepaal? En wat is nodig om daaraan te voldoen? Deur Anna Mouton. Valskodlingmot is – en was nog altyd – inheems in Afrika suid van…
The Koue Bokkeveld is one of the biggest and most important deciduous fruit-growing areas in South Africa. Going up the Gydo Pass you find Op-die-Berg, the heartbeat of this industry at the top of the Skurweberg. Gerrit Rautenbach gave them…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Opleiding werk! Met hierdie twee woorde, vat Joy van Biljon haar nalatenskap by die Koue Bokkeveld Opleidingsentrum (Kbos) saam. Joy wat vir baie sinoniem met Kbos is, het vanjaar as hoof uitgetree. “Ek glo ons het deur…
Hortgro calls on all stakeholders to ignore or report any documentation delivered in the name of Operation Dudula, or any other form of intimidation by this group. Several producers received a notification from this group that demanded that employers should…
Despite frost heavily affecting early cherry varieties, cherry growers remain positive about the overall quality of this season’s harvest and the promising opportunities available in both local and international markets. “While there may be less fruit on the trees this…
Grant Smuts, a stone fruit producer and owner of Smuts Bros. Robertson, has served on the deciduous fruit industry’s Research Council since 1998, later as chairman of the Hortgro Science Advisory Board. Today, he continues to provide valuable input on…
Achtervlei Farm on Piket-Bo-Berg is home to Kobus Eigelaar – a pome and stone fruit producer of stature and selfless giver of his time and guidance to his community and to the industry. Kobus has served on various industry boards…
The success story of the Haarlem Community by Gerrit Rautenbach It all started many years ago because of water. In 1963 the then Coloured Affairs Department of the governing National Party of South Africa bought the farm Anhalt because the…
The Packhouse Action Group (PAG) has been working relentlessly to find solutions to combat load shedding. Find recommended actions for cold stores during periods of load shedding in the Fresh Notes 158. The PAG load-shedding workgroup also met recently to…
By Carina Wessels & Dianca Yssel, Blue North Sustainability South Africa faces significant challenges in managing its water resources due to being a water-scarce country, receiving 40% less rainfall than the annual global average. This has an impact on agricultural…