The area has had lovely late rains, but this has affected our normal fruit harvesting time. Normally all the fruit would have fallen to the ground by now and been picked up by our harvesters, but this year more than half of them are still on the trees. So we are waiting for the fruit to drop off the trees… you can't hurry nature!
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Dr Sarah Venter (Managing Director at EcoProducts) was invited to be a guest presenter at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) conference held recently. Sarah presented on quality standards in Baobab Oil and working with communities to achieve high standards and meeting customer expectations.
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This is Sani Mudau. When I was visiting the village last week she was busy with an embroidery while she was waiting for her turn to be paid for the fruit she had collected. Since it's Women's Day today I thought I would celebrate the local Venda women. Many rural women have something called a […]
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