Carolize Jansen

It's still early days in the Zimbabwean blueberry season, but Delecta Fruit and its grower partners have already moved decisively, sending three

"Thrips can cause significant damage and yield losses either by direct damage, such as feeding marks on the crop, or by indirect damage through

Farms in the Loskop Valley are at the coalface of the populist anti-foreigner sentiment that has moved into the mainstream under the banner of March and March.

© Namakwaland Sitrus Early mandarins and navelates are being picked in the Western Cape's Olifants River Valley, where, after yet another flood just

Although South Africa's latest citrus export estimate has been revised slightly lower, the industry is still expected to export around 204 million 15kg cartons, making it another exceptionally large season.

© 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…