date:May 29, 2023
oft citrus season has been very early: in the Boland some producers have already finished with clementines, but in Citrusdal there are clementines still hanging for colour to develop.
The impending rain places pressure on the Western Capes soft citrus exports.
Rain constrains availability
South Africas citrus is grown over a large geographical spread, with very different climates, but even so there has been so much autumn rain over South Africa both in the summer and winter rainfall areas th