date:Apr 28, 2017
Could carrot juice be the next big super food trend farmers could take advantage of?
The largest carrot producer in South Africa certainly thinks so.
Vito Rugani harvests 200 tonnes of carrots a day at his 2,500-hectare farm on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
About 30 per cent of the crop will end up in juice, which is produced using a process he developed in conjunction with an Italian professor.
It's high in beta-carotene, the pigment that makes carrots orange, which converts to vitamin A i