Beperk risiko’s deur kultivar-evaluasie Deur Anna Mouton Pruimprodusente is die afgelope seisoen onkant gevang deur die wisselvallige klimaat. Twee hittegolwe in die lente tesame met kwaai wind gedurende vroeë vrugontwikkeling het tot teleurstellende volumes uitvoerpruime bygedra. Ongeveer vyftien persent minder…
More than 60 years ago Dr Paul Clüver’s mother, Gertrude, established a farm school on De Rust, the family farm in the Elgin Valley. With only 23 learners. A small first step is key to a great journey, Gerrit Rautenbach…
Laai asseblief die Sagtevrugte-plantverbeteringsorganisasie se jaarverslag, hier af:spv-jaarverslag-2019 Indien u ‘n kopie in Engels verkies, kontak asseblief vir Nadene Louw by admin@plantsa.co.za
A new schedule for CCC workshops has just been released (25 June 2020). Download it here: ccc-workshops The Confronting Climate Change benchmark reports are out now: Please download your copy of the pome fruit 2020 report here:benchmark-report-pome-fruit-2020-fin And the stone…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp “’n Reis van ’n duisend myl begin met ‘n enkele tree,” het die Chinese wysgeer Confucius gesê. Welliswaar is dit ook die geval met die vestiging van ‘n nuwe kultivar, soos die meeste planttelers jou sal vertel…
In 2014, the very first Agri’s got Talent (AGT) took place. It started small but went from andante to allegro in six years. This year will be their seventh anniversary. Gerrit Rautenbach looked back at the success of AGT, especially…
By Grethe Bestbier For Dr Esmé Louw, newly appointed chair of the Stellenbosch University Department of Horticultural Science, the chance to make a real and tangible impact in the industry is just one of the things that excite her about…
Over the last number of years, a lot has happened in the world and certainly in South Africa. Since 1994 the much-needed process of upliftment and equalisation got underway across the full spectrum. From sport to commerce, education, and farming…
By Jacques du Preez A Trade & Markets update – 20 April 2020 With the outbreak of the Coronavirus in November 2019 in China, we as the South African deciduous fruit industry, find ourselves in uncharted waters. What seemed to be…
Die afgelope 2019-2020 steenvrugseisoen kan met reg as ‘n tuimeltreinrit beskou word, meen verskeie kenners. Aan die een kant het die droogte uiteindelik in die Bergrivierstreek, insluitend Stellenbosch en Franschhoek gebreek, terwyl dit weer sommige produsente in die Klein-Karoo op…
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).
Dr Ivan Meyer, Provincial Minister of Agriculture in the Western Cape, has officially announced Dr Mogale Sebopetsa as the new Head of the Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA). Minister Meyer: “I am looking forward to working with the newly…