First week of Northern Cape grape harvest
Nice and hot – 36°C yesterday – just the way grape farmers in the Northern Cape like it.
“No rain is predicted for the next two weeks and we expect the grapes will ripen earlier,” says a manager in the Northern Cape grape industry who asks not to be named.
“We started packing on Monday with Prime and Early Sweet. On Friday we’ll start with
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