News Archive: 2021
Together in the ARRA™ fields – Grapa Newsletter – 29 December 2020
This year, TopFruit, the exclusive territorial agent for the commercialization of the ARRA™ Varieties and Early Sweet™ in Southern Africa, successfully hosted two early-season field days in Augrabies (Northern Cape) and Groblersdal (Limpopo region) respectively. This week we are happy to bring you the highlights of these both very fruitful days. Read more
First harvest of Inored apples in South Africa – April 2020
The first Inored apple harvest has been taken off in the Witzenberg Valley above Ceres, impressing the South African pioneers of the French-bred open variety with its strong colour and low sunburn incidence. Read the full article
Keen interest in new ARRA varieties at recent field days in South Africa
Amid the uncertainty cast by Covid on the export table grape market, there was a strong turnout of growers and exporters at TopFruit’s recent annual field day in Augrabies (instead of Aussenkehr, Namibia) and, for the first time, in Limpopo. Read the full article
TopFruit Newsletter | February 2021
We are surely living in strange times and more often than not, we just want to stand still and make sense of what is going on around us because if we can comprehend it, we feel safe. At the present time, however, feeling safe seems like a luxury because just as we thought COVID-19 was losing steam, the second wave hit us even harder. Read more
TopFruit Newsflash – Bingo Gala Apple & EDEN™ Pear | February 2021
Bingo Gala Bingo Gala is an exciting new blushed cherry red, stable Gala apple mutation discovered in Grabouw, South Africa. EDEN™ A very low chill pear from the Ben-Dor breeding programme of outstanding eating quality and excellent storage ability. Read more.
