Farming is a labour intensive operation and there where you have lots of people together, there is always social pressure. Not coping with the pressure leads to social deterioration. And handling social deterioration becomes a social responsibility. To cope, you…
There’s no doubt that SA is rugby-mad. The Springboks’ majestic World Cup win – for the fourth time – is still fresh in our memories. The deciduous fruit industry recently had its own Rugby Cup – a one-day tournament between…
Tien jaar gelede was Anton Rabe, Hortgro se uitvoerende direkteur, op pad erens heen, toe die gedagte hom skielik tref…daar is Idols, America’s Got Talent…hoekom nie ook Agri’s Got Talent nie? “Ons landbouwerkers het soveel meer om te gee as…
Debbie Schreuder het in Prins Alfred Hamlet grootgeword en reeds tydens haar skoolvakansies ervaring in vrugtepakhuise opgebou. Sy het ’n B.Com. in logistiek aan Universiteit Stellenbosch voltooi en haar loopbaan by ’n vervoermaatskappy begin. In 2009 het sy na Delecta…
The South African deciduous fruit industry is reeling under the impact of the recent floods in key production areas, particularly in Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp (EGVV), parts of the Klein Karoo, and Franschhoek. During crisis talks with the Western…
Text and picture by Gerrit Rautenbach Jason Baartman is a man who lives passionately for agriculture. At first, he sometimes wondered why he didn’t opt for something like law or engineering or the like. Maybe he felt inferior about being…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Die volhoubaarheid van die Suid-Afrikaanse droëvrugtebedryf word geteister deur talle uitdagings, maar elke probleem is oorkombaar deur noukeurig huiswerk te doen en besigheidsrats te bly. Altesaam 60 bedryfsverteenwoordigers en produsente het vroeg in September buite Rawsonville byeengekom…
Drie vroue van Achtervlei, Piket-Bo-Berg, trap diep landbouspore. Vroue wat Nietzsche lees, bekommerd is oor gemeenskapstrauma, die omgewing, wat somme in hul drome maak en nuwe produkte ontwikkel wat supermarkte laat toustaan. Elise-Marie Steenkamp het gaan inloer. Deidré Eigelaar: Die…
Gerrit van der Merwe is die derde generasie vrugteprodusent op die plaas Fonteintjie in die Koue Bokkeveld. Hy het sy B.Sc.Agric. met hortologie en landbou-ekonomie aan Universiteit Stellenbosch voltooi en aangebly vir ’n M.Sc.Agric. onder leiding van Prof. Wiehann Steyn…
Hortgro, SATI, FPEF, Berries ZA, CGA, and Western Cape Government held a planning/pre- season meeting with the Western Cape Management team of Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) as well as representation from the Transnet National office…
Produsente wat probleme het met krag of meer krag benodig kan nou by die Landbank aanklop finansiële hulp. Vind die volledige dokument hier: Agro Energy Fund from Land Bank 2023
As of January 2022, the Tissue Culture Facility (TCF) at Bernheim Farm, outside Paarl, has added a certified quarantine facility to its operations. This will enable TCF clients to have certified tissue culture material imported to South Africa. This novel…