Water risks for pome fruit packhouses Blue North Sustainability was contracted by the Packhouse Action Group (PAG) to conduct a study on the water risks faced by pome fruit packhouses and cold storage operations. Find an infographic summary of the…
“While we recognise that the Port of Cape Town (PoCT) management is implementing a terminal turn-around strategy and welcome the acquisition of new infrastructure, the worryingly slow pace at which it is happening remains a deep concern and has direct…
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…
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…
Prof. Eckart Kassier, die argitek van landbou-deregulering in 1997, is in Januarie 2025 oorlede. Ons innige medelye met sy familie. Hortgro het hulde gebring aan prof. Kassier in ons boek: 20 Years of Fruit Freedom – A Review. Lees gerus…
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…
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…
Sixteen years after Thailand banned the import of South African deciduous fruit, due to an administrative error, negotiations are progressing in the right direction. At the time of the imposition of the ban on the exportation of South African fresh…