Over the eight years between 2011 to 2019, more than 830 peach varieties were imported into South Africa, with apples not far behind at 782 new varieties (right: Provar evaluation of new peach varieties).
The number of cultivars imported every year is astonishing, says Iwan Labuschagne, founder and managing director of Provar, South Africa’s only independent cultivar evaluator.
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