AGRICULTURE NEWS - Blueberries are one of the fastest-growing agricultural commodities in South Africa, with farmers capitalising on high market demand and favourable prices.
However, since the expansion of water and soil resources remain stagnant, the key to sustaining the growth of the blueberry sector is to farm smarter, using less water and other resources, for a bigger crop.
With this in mind, Wikus Strauss, co-owner of Seven Growers in Franschhoek, Western Cape, set about establishing the farm’s blueberry production. The farm is partly planted to stone fruit, and the land where strawberries once grew was turned over to blueberries in 2017.
Read the full article here on the Caxton Publication, Farmers Weekly
