Farmers across the country, but especially in the soft fruit industry, are getting seriously frustrated. Irrigation pivots that deliver water at a certain time of the day for a certain time are now affected by the power cuts.
The “cold chain”, namely the cooling of export fruit is constantly interrupted by irregular power supply and this adversely affects the quality. This will cause millions of Rand’s damage and where fruit can no longer be exported due to these power failures, the country could also then lose its status as a reliable supplier.
Dairies where milk, a sensitive and extremely perishable product, is being worked on becomes obliged to procure a support generator because of the unreliability of Eskom’s service.
Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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