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31 Mar 2019
Navel Oranges
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SA won’t give up its fight against the EU’s intransigence towards our citrus products.

Justin Chadwick
www.dailymaverick.co.za

Despite one of the best seasons on record in mitigating the risk of Citrus Black Spot symptoms on fruit arriving at EU borders, the EU seems determined to meet South Africa’s best efforts with unflinching bureaucratic coldness.

The Rewe supermarket in Mitte, Berlin – along the banks of the Spree River – has a selection of Stellenbosch wine, chakalaka flavoured chips and baskets of fresh South African oranges. None of which, in the globalised 2018 world, is surprising or out of place. All of which makes it so difficult to accept the European Union’s (EU) relentless and equally hardkoppige 26-year campaign to keep those oranges off the shelves – citing something called citrus black spot (CBS).

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25 Jan 2019
Citrus Black Spot
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EU digs in heels and remains aggressively protectionist on CBS

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Despite one of the best seasons on record in terms of mitigating the risk of Citrus Black Spot (CBS) symptoms on fruit arriving at EU borders, the EU seems determined to meet South Africa’s best efforts with unflinching bureaucratic coldness.

At a meeting in Brussels on 27 November between the EU’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante), the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) and a delegation of SA citrus producers, the EU begrudgingly acknowledged this year as a good season.

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25 Jan 2019
Orri Jaffa
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Easy-Peeler Orri Jaffa expected to see 70% sales growth in North American markets

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The Plant Production and Marketing Board of Israel predicts that 2019 will see significant increase in exports of the Orri Jaffa mandarin to the US and Canada. The organization set goals for expanding export of its leading, easy-to-peel mandarin in response to the increased demand for high-quality, easy-peelers.

The Jaffa Orri is a mandarin developed by scientists at the Israeli Volcani Research Center. This easy-to-peel mandarin retains an excellent, fresh, sweet flavor with a fleshy texture, and mouthful juiciness, while bearing virtually no seeds. It also carries a particularly long shelf life and appears later in the season compared to other easy peelers – from January into May.

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21 Dec 2018
Gerrit van der Merwe
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Our deepest condolences to the Van der Merwe family in this difficult time.

Lucille Botha

Network 24.com

One of South Africa’s best-known citrus farmers and a former farmer of the year died on Wednesday after a fatal accident in Malawi.

Mr. Gerrit van der Merwe (68) of ALG farming on Citrusdal, along with his wife, Lizette, went on a tour to Uganda when he fell into a ditch in Lilongwe on Sunday night and hurt his foot.

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25 Nov 2018
Citrus Export
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South Africa: Citrus export ship to Asia is positive news

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If the Western Cape were a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest exporter of citrus fruits.

South Africa is currently the second biggest exporter of citrus in the world after Spain, accounting for 10% of the global market. The Western Cape currently exports the majority share of this, at 62%, making it the largest exporter of citrus fruit in the Southern Hemisphere.

Over 6% of the global market share of citrus was exported from the Western Cape in 2017. To put this in perspective, China and the USA, which hold the spots as the world’s third and fourth biggest exporters, hold global market share of eight percent and 7 percent respectively.

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