Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, one of South Africa's leading exporters of apples and pears, predicts that this year's volume of marketable fruit will be between 8% and 10% lower than last year, mainly due to hail damage.
Pear exports are expected to drop 3% from 21.2 million cartons in the previous season to 20.6 million cartons this season.According to Tru-Cape managing director Roelf Pienaar, price inflation puts pressure on consumers globally. As a result of less disposable income, they then tend to buy less and cheaper. At the same time, he expects a price adjustment as growers are hard-pressed to continue working for marginal returns.
_Business More cider as a result 💪
_Business Maybe we can just be grateful to have apples…both local and the countries exported too.
_Business Hail damage is skin deep. The taste is is still there.
_Business And consumers are compelled to buy hail damaged apples and pears while those without damage are exported. eNCA