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Renewed optimism ahead of the upcoming South African grape season (opens the original)
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The start of South Africa's 2026/2027 table grape season has been heralded by the first official crop estimate, almost three million cartons lighter than last year's 81.3 million 4.5kg cartons, but still a million up over the five-year average. The vineyards are looking good, says Capespan head of grape Herman Redelinghuys, and preparations are proceeding well. That is the message with which he and his colleagues are attending Fruit Attraction next week. "There's a renewed optimism for the seaso
Irrigation’s next frontier is making water more bioavailable (opens the original)
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Banana production is highly sensitive to water scarcity, a challenge increasingly facing farmers worldwide, including in Türkiye, where ecoSolv's ecoWet'R (sm) (Water Enhancement Technology) was trialled on open-field Cavendish bananas over two growing seasons, 2020 and 2021, in Gazipaşa, Antalya. Researchers from Akdeniz University compared drip-irrigated banana plots treated with ecoWet'R (sm) against untreated control blocks, and the results showed gains across every measured category, says R
South African citrus industry beset by doubts about the way forward (opens the original)
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As the citrus harvest winds down across South Africa, it's time to apply fertilizer for the 2027 crop, and given the unfavourable exchange rate and rising costs, cash flow is very tight on citrus farms everywhere, including in the Sundays River Valley where lemons are the forte. The lemon crop was "massive", says a packhouse manager: ten million more 15kg cartons than last year's 41 million cartons. The 2026 lemon crop even exceeds by 7 million cartons the lemon forecast within the industry's gr
For the first time ever Boland stone fruit kick off before citrus finish (opens the original)
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When one of the stonefruit farmers who packs at Sonlia Packhouse alerted them months ago that his nectarine orchards were already in bloom, initially Tertius Basson and his colleagues at the Wellington-based facility couldn't believe it: never before had stonefruit started before the citrus had finished. "We're really glad that he gave us a heads up," says packhouse manager Basson. "So we've had time to get citrus off one of our two bigger lines and start cleaning and testing the line in prepara
Ravages of rain reflected in Limpopo onion crop (opens the original)
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Until week 37, South Africa's northern onion production zone sold almost 400 thousand fewer bags (10kg) of onions on the municipal markets, compared to what it sold last year.Last year, the region stretching from the Brits area all the way up to Tom Burke in Limpopo delivered 10 million bags of onions for the first 37 weeks; this year it could only make 9 million because, simply, of rain. "The rain had a major impact on the quality and the sizing of the crop," says Janó Bezuidenhout of the Noord
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