August / September 2021
Extension Briefs for August and September 2021
By J.J. Bester, Mathys Pretorius, Wayne Mommsen and Catherine Savage (Citrus Research International).
June / July 2021
Extension briefs for June and July 2021
By J.J. Bester, MC Pretorius, Wayne Mommsen and Catherine Savage (Citrus Research International)
April / May 2021
CRI Postharvest Webinar 2021
With Covid-19 still disrupting our lives, CRI was forced to host the very popular CRI Postharvest Workshops online this year. The six two-day workshops held across the country normally attract over 1 000 delegates and is a wonderful tech transfer,…
April / May 2021
Extension briefs for April and May 2021
By Hannes Bester, MC Pretorius, Wayne Mommsen and Catherine Savage (Citrus Research International) Integrated pest management (T.G. Grout, S.D. Moore and A. Manrakhan) Phytosanitary pests All the recommendations made in the Extension Briefs for February and March also apply to…
February / March 2021
Extension Briefs for February and March 2021
By Hannes Bester, Mathys Pretorius (aka MC), Wayne Mommsen and Catherine Savage Mealybug (S.D. Moore) Growers should be scouting for mealybug regularly, by inspecting underneath calyces and thereby determining the percentage of fruit infested. Where mealybug is under good biocontrol,…
February / March 2021
Brown Rot
BROWN ROT Getting to know your citrus postharvest diseases Brown rot is the term we tend to give to any number of brownish rots, simply based on the colour, and we never look further to correctly identify the disease. Unfortunately,…
December 2018 / January 2019
Postharvest treatments aid control of Citrus Black Spot (CBS)
Wouter Schreuder (a), Wilma Du Plooy (b), Arno Erasmus (b), Catherine Savage (b), Elaine Basson (b), Cheryl Lennox (a) And Paul H. Fourie (a,b) a Department of Plant Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa b Citrus…
June / July 2019
CRI Postharvest Workshops: 2019
In January and February 2019, CRI hosted the annual Postharvest Workshops across South Africa. The workshops drew over 1200 delegates and covered relevant topics pertaining to preparing packhouses, and other postharvest role players, for the 2019 citrus season.