Running a fruit exporting company feels a bit like being an operational company that happens to sell fruit at the moment, an exporter remarks, when managing logistics and fighting for space and equipment on vessels take up most of their days.
“You have to be passionate about fruit to be working in the fruit trade,” he says. “It’s not an easy place at the moment.”
Slow colour development on Valencias in Limpopo Province has meant at least two to three weeks of lost marketing opportunities, which, along with impediments to South Africa’s lemon and the grapefruit harvest, could explain why citrus volumes via Durban port have, thus far, not been as high as expected.
“As we move through the Valencia orchards of our growers, we don’t yet discern a median in terms of sizing and yield. It’s very early, we haven’t yet completed the puzzle but there could perhaps be less smaller sized Valencias count 105s (and smaller), than in a usual season, with a gradual increase in larger fruit perhaps peaking on count 64, 72, 56 range,” a Limpopo-based citrus exporter says.
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Carolize Jansen
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