date:Feb 13, 2017
informal street-trading sector is growing. Erasmus: There are an increasing number of guys with bakkies [small pick-up trucks] that come and collect plums from us for informal trading channels. They buy red and yellow plums, they dont mind the colour of the flesh. Plums are growing in popularity in the black consumer market.
At the largest plum packing facility in the Western Cape, Franschhoek Marketing, an annual average of 3 million cartons of plums are packaged, of which 90% is exported (cl