Carolize Jansen

"It's not a bumper crop but it's a stable, handsome, quality crop that we're taking off," says Gabriël Viljoen, chairperson of the Orange River

Insect Science is the only private semiochemical laboratory in Southern Africa delving into the chemistry of the pheromones and other semiochemicals of insects found in local orchards.

Managers' families on the banana farms around Moamba in the south of Mozambique, very close to the South African border, have left the farms for

Usually, by mid-December, in South Africa, table grape and wine grape farmers time the final release of beneficial wasps to deal with mealybug in

An entire year's labour is focused on roughly two months of the year when the grape farms in Namibia's Aussenkehr Valley pack their fruit to supply the lucrative pre-Christmas market in Europe and the UK.

Only a handful of papaya farmers are left in South Africa and among them, one of the most seasoned says he foresees giving up papayas in five years' time to focus exclusively on…

Only a handful of papaya farmers are left in South Africa and among them, one of the most seasoned says he foresees giving up papayas in five years' time to focus exclusively on avocados.

Heinrich van der Merwe is a beekeeper in Gurué, in Mozambique's Zambezia Province. He hasn't left home for a few weeks since leaving the beekeeping

South Africa's reduced litchi crop as a result of low fruit set, cold, and then sunburn damage means that most will be celebrating summer without the beloved holiday fruit.

DFM Technologies is a soil moisture sensor manufacturer, based in the Western Cape and exporting to over 30 fruit-producing countries worldwide.