AGRICULTURE NEWS - Despite a challenging season, it is expected that the South African Table Grape Industry’s (SATI) crop estimate will be exceeded by more than two million cartons, making it the largest crop on record.
“Our current intakes already exceed the [estimate for the biggest harvest ever],” said Clayton Swart, SATI’s communications manager.
SATI’s intake figures for week 12 of the season were already indicating that the upper limit of the latest crop estimate, which was 70,9 million 4,5kg-equivalent cartons, would be exceeded with a total intake of 71,8 million cartons to date.
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