Vegetables & Fruit - March/April 2022

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BRASSICAS

From grand to super Sakata Southern Africa is well-known in the agricultural industry for its high quality cabbage varieties. Over the past decade, Grandslam has become a market leader as an excellent performing F1 hybrid cabbage variety.

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abbage producers throughout South Africa immediately took a liking to the sweet taste, large yield potential and its very good field holding ability. This, together with excellent cold tolerance, has permitted harvesting over a prolonged period which is also to the producer’s advantage. Sakata’s cabbage breeders have done a lot of research into refining Grandslam and improving the variety even further. The breeders specifically focused on seed availability

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Superslam produces large round cabbage heads with a big frame and good head weight.


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