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Source: busrep.co.za
Local citrus exports are growing, but producers left with sour deal
Citrus is such big business in South Africa - the second-largest exporter of oranges, grapefruits and lemons in the world - that seaport operations are bogged down at peak shipping times.
As new growing areas go on line, however, the challenge is to maintain existing world markets. Other countries that were large exporters a decade ago, such as Israel and Cuba, have been replaced by Turkey and China in the fluctuating citrus trade.
The Citrus Growers Association (CGA), the members of which include all the citrus farmers of South Africa and Swaziland, said to keep market share ways are needed to address shipping challenges and to transform growers from conservative farmers wedded to their ways into savvy business people who understand how to serve global markets.
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