{"id":8211,"date":"2019-09-26T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stfruits.co.za\/wp\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:13:23","slug":"greater-varieties-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stfruits.co.za\/wp\/greater-varieties-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa wants greater varietal spread of citrus &#038; table grapes in Japanese trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Carolize Jansen<\/strong><br \/>\nwww.freshplaza.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A recent visit to Japan for the annual Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which was joined by the Citrus Growers\u2019 Association at the behest of President Cyril Ramaphosa, provided the association with a salient opportunity to address some nagging aspects of fruit trade with that country, as well as to press the fruit industry\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Currently between eighty and ninety percent of South African citrus going to Japan is grapefruit, but the country\u2019s appetite for grapefruit is ageing along with its population, with little demand among younger consumers (a phenomenon neither limited to Japan nor to grapefruit; marmalade consumption in the UK being a case in point).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshplaza.com\/article\/9142518\/south-africa-wants-greater-varietal-spread-of-citrus-table-grapes-in-japanese-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolize Jansen www.freshplaza.com A recent visit to Japan for the annual Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which was joined by the Citrus Growers\u2019 Association at the behest of President Cyril Ramaphosa, provided the association with a salient opportunity to address some nagging aspects of fruit trade with that country, as well as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38,246,247,245],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-citrus","tag-greater-varietals","tag-japan","tag-table-grapes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Africa wants greater varietal spread of citrus &amp; 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