End of the Sharon fruit dream in South Africa

More than 20 years ago the southern regions in South Africa were chosen as the ideal place in the Southern Hemisphere to establish a counter-seasonal Sharon fruit export business, but now the dream of achieving that has been abandoned.

Sharon fruit is a persimmon that has to be handled and ripened in a very specific way, and was seen as a fruit with great promise in South

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