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© Carolize Jansen | FreshPlaza.com South Africans are eating less of the traditional fruit types, and as the economy pinches, even staples like

Avocado packing at Koeltehof Packers in Kiepersol, Mpumalanga Province, will end two weeks earlier than usual: it had been a season characterized

"The company buys around 27 different types of cartons – eleven of those designed specifically for citrus – for the five packhouses within the ANB Group," says Rohan Beukes, packaging buyer at the ANB Group.

"From a logistics point of view, we expect that the next three to four weeks are going to be deeply difficult," says Leardt van der Burgh, head of

"Looking ten years ahead when you're farming long-term tree crops is not enough. You have to decide on your fifteen, twenty-year plan," says Juan Winter, managing director of Source BI…

Growers, technical specialists and industry partners recently gathered at Unlimited Group's Paarl offices for the company's first Sustainable Crop

© Mafube Fresh "Dried fruit powder is an untapped market with great potential. The powder is used in smoothies and as a condiment (avo powder) on

Rederberg Estates in Hoedspruit would, in a normal year, have finished picking and packing mandarins by this time, leaving them to focus on their last crop, Valencias.

Fruit farmers are urging Premier Foods to sit down with them and give them the time it will take to come up with a workable solution instead of the

Ceres Fruit Growers represents more than 40 topfruit farmers and owns 50% of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African pomefruit.