Produsente in die Langkloof gaan gebuk onder ’n hewige droogte. Daarom het 80 van dié produsente op 19 September vir die Hortgro Science Besproeiingsseminaar by die Kliphotel op Misgund opgedaag. Verskeie onderwerpe wat handel oor besproeiing tydens droogtetye is gedek…
The Jobs Fund Initiatives is the Deciduous Fruit Development Chamber’s Commercialisation Programme. It started in 2016 and is aimed at graduating a group of smallholder farmers to commercial status. Hortgro and the DFDC-SA recently went on a monitoring and evaluation…
Wydverspreide hael het beduidende verliese veroorsaak maar goeie reëns en koue bring gunstige vooruitsigte vir die komende seisoen. Deur Anna Mouton. Op 3 November 2022 is die Witzenbergvallei deur strawwe hael getref wat ernstige skade aan appel- en peerboorde berokken…
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp On 13 January 2021, the Langkloof in the Eastern Cape experienced a severe hail storm that damaged in the order of 1000 hectares of apple, pear and stone fruit orchards. These orchards account for 20% of the…
Die nuwe jaar het sleg begin in die Joubertina-distrik van die Langkloof met die afsterwe van Bokkie Kritzinger (49) van Tulpieskraal. Kritzinger, een van die leierboere in die streek, was vroeg in Januarie op pad na ‘n watergat op sy…
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…
Prepared by Brian Berkman, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing The South African 2023 picking season of FLASH GALA ™, the fruit from the Bigbucks tree that has greater than 80% colour, has come to an end. Anthony Rawbone-Viljoen, a veteran grower at…
Langkloof Representative: Neil-Pierre Strydom The Langkloof had an above-average harvest this year. For the first time in years, all farmers had enough water in their dams to see the season through. On the Western side of the Kloof, rain decreased…
Next Generation Series: When Robin Baldie was six years old his teacher asked him what he wanted to be one day. “Without hesitation, I wrote ‘farmer’,” the tall man with the broad smile remembers fondly. Most people might be mistaken…
The first Strydom settled in Krakeel River in the Langkloof in 1770. He had 10 sons and divided his piece of land into 10 sections – one for each son. Today, there are quite a lot of Strydom’s in Krakeel…
FruitFly Africa (FFA) het onlangs aangedui dat boordsanitasie in sommige vrugte- en wynproduksiegebiede, aandag kort. Die gebiede sluit in: Hexriviervallei, Olifantsriviervallei, Benede-Oranjerivier, Elgin/Grabouw, Langkloof, Ceres, Wolseley en Tulbagh. FFA het begrip vir die legio uitdagings en ekonomiese druk wat tans…
Sixteen years after Thailand banned the import of South African deciduous fruit, due to an administrative error, negotiations are progressing in the right direction. At the time of the imposition of the ban on the exportation of South African fresh…