Fresh Produce - South Africa

Westfalia Fruit Achieves Carbon Measured Certification From Carbon Trust

After engaging with the global experts on climate change, the Carbon Trust, Westfalia Fruit is ensuring compliance with best practices for carbon emissions...

Revised Business Model Spurs Profits At South Africa's RCL Foods

South African poultry producer RCL Foods reported a 50% jump in full-year profits on Tuesday. Diluted headline earning per share (HEPS) rose to 94.5...

Avocado 'Green Gold' Ripe And Ready For South Africa's Farmers

Whether you like to squash it onto your toast in the morning, millennial style, eat it to cut your cholesterol, with healthy unsaturated oil, or moisturise...

Tesco To Sell 'Green' Lemons To Tackle Food Waste In UK

British retailer Tesco has announced that it will sell 'green' lemons to help customers facing a UK shortage, and to cut down on food waste. The re...

South African Citrus Growers Spend $66 Million On Disease Curbs

South Africa’s citrus industry is spending more than 1 billion rand ($66 million) annually to control black-spot disease in fruit from the country, a...

Drought Doubles South African Potato Prices To Record High

South African potato prices have more than doubled in 2016 from a year earlier as the worst drought in more than a century cuts yields in growing regions,...

Grain Millers Oppose South African Corn-Import Tariff Review

South Africa’s grain-milling body is opposing a request by the nation’s biggest corn-farmers’ lobby to review a tariff on imports of the...

South African Sunflower Seeds Reach Record On Stockpile Concern

South African sunflower seeds reached a record on concern that low stockpiles will erode supplies needed to meet demand. Soybean futures rose. Sunflower s...