By Kandas Cloete & Tracy Davids While the combined turnover value of the pome and stone fruit industries remained stable at R19.7 bn year-on-year, and, business confidence improved, several producers are yet to recover from the losses accumulated over the…
By Pieter Arnold Smit, Kandas Cloete Over the past 5 years, the most significant growth in bearing area and area planted of stone fruit types arose from expansion in plum production. Production was set to recover from the drought of…
The deciduous fruit industry is one of the largest export sectors within the agricultural sector. It employs on average 63,145 permanent equivalent farm workers per annum with an estimated 252 579 dependents. The National Minimum Wage Commission recommended to the…