Early lemon and avocado campaigns expected for South Africa
Core Fruit CEO Nico van Staden hopes that the export company, which ships a wide array of fruit to 120 ports, can catch up with grape volumes from the Western Cape; they received around a fifth less grapes from Limpopo and the Orange River Valley than usual.
Core Fruit usually handles between 4.5 million and 5 million 4.5kg cartons of grapes in a season.
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