"We have never seen such high prices for cucumbers, it's a shame we have so few."
2026-03-16 00:00
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Late summer rain and overcast weather are not very welcome to Polokwane vegetable farmer Francois Fourie, emerging from weeks of continuous rain culminating in severe flooding in Limpopo towards the end of January. So much rain did they have, he says, that their melons split en masse at the
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