"We need to convince the market that not only Wonderful is a good pomegranate"
Due to heavy rain in December during the third flowering of pomegranates, fruit set was lower than normal and the pomegranate crop will be smaller this season, says the vice-chair of South Africa’s pomegranate grower association, POMASA.
“I am expecting bigger fruit and good quality,” notes Christo Nortjé of the farm Blydeverwacht near Wellington.
Their early
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