Publication: South Africa : A Smallholder’s Innovative Approach to Producing and Exporting Fruit
Date
2005-03
ISSN
Published
2005-03
Author(s)
Hart, Tim
Billet, Aubrey
Burgess, Roberta
Abstract
Exporting deciduous fruit from the
Western Cape Province of South Africa to markets in Europe,
North America and Asia contributes significantly to the
province's Gross Domestic Product. The main export
producers are large-scale farmers. Even with the change in
discriminatory legislation and practices in South Africa
after 1994, few smallholder farmers have penetrated this
market. The few smallholders who manage to export their
fruit do so through collective or individual arrangements
with large-scale commercial operations. One such farmer is
Aubrey Billet from Haarlem. He started exporting apples in
the 1970s. Over the decades, he developed his own knowledge
and innovations in both fruit production and socio-economic
arrangements and was able to continue exporting most of his
annual apple crop. This article discusses the lessons
learned from this farmer's grafting experiments.
Citation
“Hart, Tim; Billet, Aubrey; Burgess, Roberta. 2005. South Africa : A Smallholder’s Innovative Approach to Producing and Exporting Fruit. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 78. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/e04249fc-de78-5e47-9b77-d8874263442f License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”