9 November 2021: As the flowering, fruit set, and thinning process on stone fruit progress a clearer picture is starting to form for the 2021/22 South African stone fruit season. The plum estimate for fruit packed for the export market has…
Press release: 16 May 2019 Urgent action needed to curb farm attacks The deciduous fruit industry body, Hortgro, has called on the Government to immediately put actions in place to protect farmers and rural communities from the spate of violent…
Important notice for primary agriculture and agribusinesses, as published in the Government Gazette of 17 January 2020: All water users that undertake commercial irrigation and who do not belong to a water user association or irrigation board required to install…
Text and photographs: Carmé Naudé The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in partnership with California farm organizations and research institutions traveled to the Western Cape during August to build international collaborations with South African partners and share best…
In February 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6–3 against the Trump Administration’s reciprocal tariffs imposed under IEEPA, effectively ending those measures. However, the relief proved short-lived. On the same day, the Administration introduced a temporary import…
Lox, stock and barrel Loxtonia cider of Ceres’ story by Gerrit Rautenbach. “The fact that we started making cider is because we’ve got sun in South Africa. An abundance of sun. Resulting in a high percentage of sunburn and related…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Lae koue-behoefte appelkultivars, andersoortige windbrekers, innoverende meganisasie, hoë nektarienbome, en krokodille in besproeiingsdamme is maar van die interessante ervarings wat die Hortgro Science-span in Junie vanjaar op besoek aan die Limpopo gehad het. Op boordbesoek reg langs…
Vier bekendes in die bedryf gesels oor verandering – wat leer die afgelope dertig jaar ons oor die toekoms? Deur Anna Mouton. “Ek kan onthou in my eerste jaar by Fruitways – 1997 – was ek by ’n oes-af funksie…
Deur Anna Mouton Marius Ras is vir die afgelope vier dekades betrokke in die navorsing en ontwikkeling van tegnologie vir bespuiting. Hy het as jong meganiese ingenieur sy loopbaan by die Departement Landbou in Stellenbosch begin. Sy werk daar het…
Vrugtebedryf bring eerste weefselkultuurlaboratorium op die been Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Andrè Smit en Charmaine Stander het onlangs tydens ‘n produsente-inligtingsdag opwindende nuwe tegnologie, asook die Tissue Culture Facility, bekend gestel. Hoekom weefselkultuur? Weefselkultuur is ‘n wêreldwye tegnologiese tendens in die…
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…
