Combating postharvest decay without leaving a footprint.
Ziv Ben-Ami, director of Auryon, argues that South Africa's excessively strict regulations that group heavy-duty fungicides with products classified as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) by the

Organic elemental sulphur mitigates the limitations of traditional fungicides.
Emile de Groot from Koppert states that a liquid fungicide and acaricide that is easily applied, registered for a wide range of crops, leaves no residue, and is gentle enough to be used in organic

There is a health alert for a batch of South African avocados.
The European Commission, through the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), has reported a batch of Hass avocados from South Africa containing levels of Prochloraz twenty times higher than

Dark times persist for SA’s mushroom industry
Industry experts paint a gloomy outlook for South Africa’s mushroom industry, largely as a direct result of load shedding, high input costs and the closure of two mushroom farms. In the mushroom

“Hectic shortages” of South African mushrooms
The rumour that Denny Mushrooms, South Africa’s largest mushroom producer, is closing its doors, is not true. The mushroom grower, South Africa’s largest with farms in various provinces, is