MACADAMIAS
PROMOTION
Macadamia expansion
The macadamia industry Many areas in South Africa are already established to develop macadamias commercially. With further growth in the industry, macadamia nut production continues to be an attractive alternative to existing crops, achieving a high return per hectare.
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ccording to Lauren Strever from Amorentia Nursery, something that is noteworthy is the expansion of macadamias into Africa; with Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Angola and the Congo featuring on the list of just some of countries in a phase of growth. This bodes well for the global macadamia industry, creating stability for the future supply. Some of the trees which Amorentia has supplied into Southern Africa over the past 12 months is varients 816, 849, 842, A4, A16, A4, Daddow, N2, Beaumont, 791 and 814. Amorentia Macadamia Nursery remains the most established nursery in the industry, having propagated macadamia trees for 50 years. Under the leadership of their new senior nursery manager, Anneri Potgieter, Amorentia is happy to have trees available on demand for the 2022/23 planting season. Many areas which are suitable to growing macadamias are also suitable to growing avocados and dragon fruit. Amorentia Nursery offers all modern avocado selections, grafted on Guatemalan / West Indian rootstocks for the 2022/23 planting season. Data extracted from a national benchmark study performed by Sourcebi Agriculture Data Analytics, shows the role that rootstocks play in the yield and quality in avocado production. Over a seven-year period, seedling rootstocks yielded the same average tonnage per hectare as clonal rootstocks. The Nursery also offers an exciting opportunity to grow Amorentia Sweet Dragon Fruit. It is an exciting market which is exploding in South Africa. All the Amorentia Sweet Dragon Fruit selections are deliciously sweet and have been trademarked to adequately differentiate this amazing fruit from, old, bland and boring tasting Dragon Fruit selections. People who have never tasted one of Amorentia’s Sweet Dragon Fruit selections, are missing out. Farmers who have available land to develop, may consider this new and exciting crop as a real possibility for great returns per hectare. For more information, contact the Amorentia team or visit www.amorentia.co.za.
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VEGETABLES & FRUIT | MARCH • APRIL 2022
