AGRICULTURE NEWS - Markets for citrus, macadamias and avocados remain subdued due to the global economic downturn, while volumes are increasing from more orchards coming into production.
Robert Davel, CEO of Mpumalanga Agriculture, noted that the prices of all three crops that farmers were hoping for, and in some cases had bargained on, were not being realised.
“Produce is also not moving as was hoped and at a rate seen in previous years. Avocados and macadamia nuts are to a large extent luxury products, and people who are under financial strain are not buying the volumes they used to."
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
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