Sometimes knowing the right lingo can make you sound like an industry insider. Just like if you are on a game drive and the ranger says over the radio they’ve spotted an “Indlovo”, those in the know will expect to see an elephant pretty soon. As the largest exporter of South African apples and ...

South Africa :Driving consumption of South Africa’s apple and pear crop is one of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, South Africa’s favourite apple and pear brand, and the largest exporter of the county’s pome (deciduous fruit with many seeds) crop, primary objectives. According to Tru-Cape Marketing ...

The most successful new apple variety in the history of South Africa, Bigbucks, the fruit of which is trademarked as FLASH GALA ™ has had a strong first harvest. With more than 1.5 million trees already in the ground, the full-red Gala apple, discovered by Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s New Variety ...

From left to right: Tru-Cape Marketing Director Conrad Fick with Die Burger’s Samantha van den Bergh, Porchia Adams of Fruitways, Marike Brits of Netafim and Tru-Cape Managing Director, Roelf Pienaar photographed at Die Burger newspaper’s boardroom in Cape Town. Speaking to the Agriculture ...

Ceres Fruit Growers, the preferred employer in the verdant fruit producing valley, owns half of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing which sells fruit from Ceres and Two-a-Day in Grabouw. Pieter Graaff, one of the largest single apple and pear growers in South Africa was the 2018 National Farmer of the ...

Buks Nel South Africa’s favourite apple and pear brand, Tru-Cape, hosts a presentation in Afrikaans about the history of apples and the latest new varieties at the Toyota US Woordfees with industry colleagues Hortgro and Agri-Expo. The presentation will be held in Die Khaya in Ryneveld St, ...

New year’s resolutions often include drastic intentions which, as often, come to nothing as they demand too big a change. An easy and effective way is to commit to eating more fresh fruit and vegetables and, especially those that help reduce free-radicals which cause oxidisation - nature’s own ...

Buks Nel with his Bigbucks (Flash Gala) apples Somerset West resident Buks Nel was recognised for his outstanding contribution to agriculture in the Agricultural Writers SA’s Farmer, Agriculturist and New Entrant to Commercial Agriculture awards, held in Pretoria on November 15. Nick Serfontein ...

From left to right: Tru-Cape managing director Roelf Pienaar, Buks Nel, Tru-Cape New Variety Expert, Pieter Graaff, Tru-Cape chairman and former South African Farmer of the Year with Rossouw Cillié, Tru-Cape director and former South African Farmer of the Year Somerset West resident Buks Nel, was ...

South Africa’s largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing has a fresh-fruit brand that is recognised in 104 countries around the globe. In its on-going attempt to punch above its weight class when it comes to targeting the hearts and minds of consumers, it has ...