“Everybody wants the pears from South Africa”
“The upcoming pear crop looks very promising,” says De Kock Hamman, technical manager at Ceres Fruit Growers in the eponymous Western Cape town.
The first BCs (Williams Bon Chretien, right) were ripe ten days earlier and the pear harvest started in the final week of last year already, an indication of the strong demand for pears.
A pear exporter (preferring
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