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Table grape farmers in the Lower Orange River region are facing another challenge amid higher stages of rolling blackouts. They say the blackouts are making it difficult for them to maintain the cold chain, a European market requirement

[File photo] A worker harvests grapes at the Domaine Pinson vineyard in Chablis, France, September 21, 2021.[File photo] A worker harvests grapes at the Domaine Pinson vineyard in Chablis, France, September 21, 2021.. They say the blackouts are making it difficult for them to maintain the cold chain, a European market requirement.

Table grape farmer Gabriel Viljoen says, “In the cooling chain, we’ve got to maintain a constant temperature and once it reached a cooling chain, it’s going to be taken down to zero degrees celsius, which takes approximately 12 to 20 hours. After that, it’s put into a container which is shipped down to Cape Town. Cape Town at the ports plugged in on electricity, once a vessel is there, gets loaded onto the vessels. The vessels get discharged.

 

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The controversial grape farms that earn mega millions of dollars and pays it's workers slave wages. less than 2 dollars Even if they get their way, the native peasants in those farms still earn a pittance . Its just modern slavery

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