Ten noticeable years of transformation The Pome and Stone Fruit Industry have put their money where their mouths are since 2010 regarding transformation and sustainable development. Over the last 10 years, transformation initiatives refocused on training, worker welfare, skills development…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Die onlangse haelstorm in die Langkloof het ongeveer 1500 ha appel-en peerboorde geraak en infrastruktuur op verskeie plase vernietig. Die totale verlies aan uitvoervolumes is in die orde van 1,2 miljoen kartonne. Dit verteenwoordig tussen 20% tot…
Hortgro Dried Tree Fruit (DTF) het op 1 September ’n bedryfsinligtingsdag op Robertson gehou om aan produsente en verwerkers terugvoer te gee oor “waar die bedryf staan en waarheen dit gaan” in afwagting op die komende seisoen. Deur Kara van…
Deur Elise-Marie Steenkamp Snags, terwyl ander slaap, lê die vrugteboere van die Klein-Karoo wakker. Hulle tob oor die pad vorentoe. By watter boorde moet hulle die krane toedraai? Watter blokke moet gered word? Watter moet afgekap word? Indien hul heraanplant,…
By Elise-Marie Steenkamp Transformation and economic reform in agriculture are some of the biggest challenges that South Africa faces today and that is why the Deciduous Fruit Development Chamber’s commercialization programme, the Jobs Fund Project (JFP), is such a beacon…
A group of high-ranking government officials from the Free State government and a team from the Remmoho Group, visited Hortgro early in August to explore possible collaboration and get a better understanding of the deciduous fruit industry in South Africa…
Hortfin the blended-finance scheme created to facilitate and enable transformation in the fruit, table grape and wine industries’ value chain, has announced a new partnership with First National Bank (FNB) at an event at Klein Joostenberg, Muldersvlei, yesterday. Hortfin, comprehensive…
Mariette Kotze, Hortfin’s interim manager, spoke to Smile904FM on The Honest Truth about the Hortfin project. Listen to Mariette here: Watch a short video about Hortfin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjIi_oCi6xM Pictured above the Hortfin Board: Willem Bestbier, Rico Basson, Beverly Farmer, Sunil Kooverjee,…
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…
As communicated late last year, Hortgro and the DFDC’s paths have separated given differences specifically relating to the positioning of the DFDC as a parallel operating structure to Hortgro, operational duplication of functions, and increased confusion about identity amongst interest…
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…
Text and Pictures: Elise-Marie Steenkamp Standing on a hill in Mpumalanga, overlooking the rolling green valleys of Zwelihle near Amersfoort, it’s hard not to think of Karen Blixen’s famous line: “I had a farm in Africa.” But for businessman and…