Raging Cape storm will reduce Middle East strawberry supply

Cape floods: Billions lost in the pome and stone fruit industry

Storm damage affected nearly 26% of the national pome and stone fruit industry’s value, destroying critical water supply and infrastructure and threatening thousands of jobs. Severe flooding and storm winds that struck the Western and Eastern Cape in May 2026 caused an estimated potential R6,3 billion in damage and production losses to the pome and […] The post Cape floods: Billions lost in the pome and stone fruit industry appeared first on Agr…

Raging Cape storm will reduce Middle East strawberry supply

Two weeks ago, Gavin Linsley-Noakes was making his way to the Southern Cape strawberry farm and nursery he established twenty-odd years ago in torrential rain and wind – a storm the likes of which he's never experienced before. "I kept going round and round because all the roads were totally blocked up -…