ENERGIEFONDS: Landbank maak tot R1,5m. beskikbaar aan boere
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
HORTGRO ENERGY CRISIS WEBINAR SUMMARY
All South Africans are affected and impacted by loadshedding in one way or another, and the current crisis has quite a history, said Mariette Kotzé, Hortgro’s Operational Manager during the welcoming of producers and other stakeholders at an industry webinar…
Load shedding blues
Load shedding in January came at an extremely inconvenient time for deciduous fruit producers, with harvesting, packing and cold store operations currently reaching a seasonal peak. Hortgro’s executive director, Anton Rabe, says: “Farms and packhouses had to make adjustments such…
Packhouses help growers out
Elgin packhouses empowered growers to irrigate their orchards during load-shedding. By Anna Mouton Two Elgin packhouses — Fruitways and Kromco — assisted growers this past season by providing two generators to the Groenland Water User Association (GWUA). To understand how…
Solar on the water, a dam good idea
To counter the problem of load shedding and to encourage sustainability, farmers are going solar, which is good. But solar on the water is even better, Gerrit Rautenbach discovered. On the one hand, SA’s national electricity supplier is primarily using…
The case for decarbonising exports
Developed countries increasingly penalise carbon-intensive trading partners in developing economies. By Anna Mouton “The carbon budget of the world — the total amount of carbon we can emit if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 °C — is…
WILL WE SURVIVE ESKOM?
South African energy expert, Paul Nel, addressed the question at the Hortgro Technical Symposium 2019. Nel, an engineer who worked for Eskom for 18 years, said that for the first time the government and Eskom itself acknowledged that the energy…