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The South African citrus season started quite well. “Whether this will hold up throughout the rest of the season will become apparent when larger volumes of Valencia’s, among others, come onto the market,” says Joep van […]

Brexit has provided South African citrus growers a reason to cheer as the industry has been in a spot of bother because of stringent EU import requirements. Now, the R9bn industry, which has been battling citrus […]

Far East markets remain one of the most important areas of strategic expansion for the South African fresh produce industry. South Africa exported 103 802 tons of oranges in 2015 to Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, […]

Despite suffering the worst drought in decades, South Africa’s pome fruit industry fared relatively well compared with initial expectations, according to Hortgro, the organisation which represents South Africa’s deciduous fruit industry. Hortgro’s latest forecast predicts a […]