“Fruit industry in the Eastern Cape is facing a perfect storm”
This weekend the Langkloof, straddling the Eastern and Western Cape, had hail for the third time this summer over an area extending through almost the entire valley from Avontuur and Uniondale in the west to Joubertina and Krakeel, with perhaps most damage around Misgund.
The topfruit harvest is around a third of the way through in the Langkloof.
“We were meant to start
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