Southern African citrus volumes set to boom
As if the past season has not been tough enough, Southern Africa’s citrus growers face the mother of all consultations over the next two months.
The challenge is to set a plan in place that will help it with the huge increase in production expected over the next ten years.
Growers in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Eswatini are all in the mix and the growers will face a whole host of crucial challenges on the way.
Over the last few years, the Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) has mainly spoken about it reaching a figure of 200m cartons by 2025. This would have meant that over the next few years the industry would have had to export an additional 40m cartons.
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