One of the greatest sources of high fruit fly populations is from year-round infestation in town gardens which serve as a source of infestation of adjacent farms. All fruit trees as well as other trees/shrubs which bear fleshy berries/fruitlets can…
NEXT GENERATION SERIES Making a success of something in life is all about momentum. Progression. Growth. But to be able to do it well, you need to feed the stream. Gerrit Rautenbach looks at how the custodians of the farm…
Deciduous fruit growers from Grabouw and Elgin will donate between 7.5 and 10 million cubic meters of water to the City of Cape Town. The growers opened their hearts and sluices to “give their share” and help the Cape Metro…
Press release: 16 February 2018 Hortgro Welcomes New SA President President Ramaphosa during a visit last year to the PALS project in Ceres. The South African deciduous fruit industry organisation, Hortgro, said in a statement today that it welcomes the…
Met albei bene (en hart) op die grond Woorde deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Prof. Leopoldt van Huyssteen, Uitvoerende Bedryfshoof van die Universiteit Stellenbosch, is vanjaar die Sagtevrugtebedryf se wenner van die O.S.H. Reinecke Leierskapstoekenning. Die toekenning gaan jaarliks aan iemand wat…
In Tulbagh hoef landbouwerkers nie tydens werksure oor hul kroos se veiligheid te wonder nie. Dáárvoor sorg die D’Agen Kindersorgsentrum reeds 26 jaar. Die kindersorgsentrum is in 1991 deur die Tulbagh Plaaswerknemers-trust gestig, en word steeds dié trust bedryf. Produsente…
