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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2011 (25/12/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2011 (25/12/11)

"Christmas is the day when we remind ourselves that man can live in peace with his neighbours and that it is the peacemakers who are truly blessed."  President John F. Kennedy

  • Maputo Port

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2011 (16/12/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2011 (16/12/11)

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."  Henry David Thoreau

  • Grower Roadshows
  • New levy proposal
  • False Codling Moth (FCM)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2011 (09/12/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2011 (09/12/11)

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." 
Alec Bourn

  • Verification of phytosanitary PUC registrations
  • Integrated Pest Management DVD
  • False Codling Moth (FCM)
  • Cryptogran

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2011 (25/11/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2011 (25/11/11)

"As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."  H. Rider Haggard

  • CGA Board of Directors
  • CRI Board of Directors
  • PMA Career Fair

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2011 (18/11/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2011 (18/11/11)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Albert Einstein

  • Pest Management DVD

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2011 (11/11/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2011 (11/11/11)

"Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat."  Anon

  • Durban port upgrade

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2011 (04/11/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2011 (04/11/11)

"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."  David Letterman

  • Seven billion people on the planet
  • Citrus Marketing Forum
  • Citrus Academy

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2011 (28/10/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2011 (28/10/11)

"You don’t have degrees of honesty” notice outside church in rural Australia."

  • Australia
  • World population

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2011 (21/10/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2011 (21/10/11)

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." John C. Maxwell

  • Citrus growers elections
  • CBS Risk Management System (CBS RMS)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2011 (14/10/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2011 (14/10/11)

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters." George Foreman

  • Global Citrus Teleconference
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2011 (07/10/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2011 (07/10/11)

"You will make more friends in a week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year by trying to get other people interested in you."  Arnold Bennett

  • Fruit South Africa ethical trade program launch
  • Russia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2011 (30/09/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2011 (30/09/11)

"When man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."  John Ruskin

  • Launch of Fruit South Africa Ethical Trade Program
  • South Africa - Russia Intergovernmental Trade and Economic Committee (ITEC)
  • Pest porgram DVD

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2011 (23/09/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2011 (23/09/11)

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." 
Peter Drucker

  • Special export market registration
  • Consumer assurance visit to Europe and UK
  • Push for rail in Letsitele

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2011 (16/09/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2011 (16/09/11)

"In Mexico we have a word for Sushi: Bait."  Jose Simon

  • CGA Citrus Cultivate Management Company
  • Korean inspector
  • World Food Moscow
  • Asia Fruit Logistica
  • Helicover - Bollworm control

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2011 (09/09/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2011 (09/09/11)

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target." 
Patrick Toche

  • Quality workshop
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2011 (02/09/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2011 (02/09/11)

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • Quality workshop
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Asia Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Board meeting and AGM

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2011 (26/08/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2011 (26/08/11)

"Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t." 
Margaret Thatcher

  • CGA AGM
  • Quality workshop
  • Ethical trading

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2011 (19/08/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2011 (19/08/11)

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."  Peter Kay

  • Japan market development for grapefruit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2011 (12/08/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2011 (12/08/11)

"Never confuse movement with action."  Ernest Hemingway

  • Road transport

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2011 (05/08/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2011 (05/08/11)

"Quality is not an act. It is a habit."  Aristotle

  • Quality workshop
  • CGA AGM

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2011 (29/07/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2011 (29/07/11)

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It’s called "rain""  Michael McClary

  • Global Citrus Teleconference
  • CGA AGM

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2011 (22/07/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2011 (22/07/11)

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."  Nelson Mandela

  • Ethical Trading Handbook

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2011 (15/07/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2011 (15/07/11)

"A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted."  James Kirk

  • Russia
  • Ethical Trade Handbook

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2011 (08/07/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2011 (08/07/11)

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."  Winston Churchill

  • Grapefruit challenge
  • Orchard identification
  • Asia Fruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2011 (01/07/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2011 (01/07/11)

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man, standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."  Winston Churchill

  • Malaysia
  • Helicovir
  • Crinet
  • UK media visit the South African grapefruit industry

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2011 (24/06/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2011 (24/06/11)

"The difference between agriculture and the roller-coaster industry is that the roller-coaster industry gets its money at the start and agriculture must try to get it in the middle of the ride."" Dirk Bandsman

  • Malaysia
  • Media group from the UK to visit grapefruit region next week
  • South Korea: grapefruit and lemon access

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2011 (17/06/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2011 (17/06/11)

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."  B. Berenson

  • Healthy grapefruit
  • CGDC Logistics Focus Group, Citrus Marketing Forum and CGA Next
  • Iran
  • Food and Veterinary Office (FVO)

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2011 (10/06/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2011 (10/06/11)

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."  Mark Twain

  • CGA Next
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • CGA Logistics Focus Group
  • Food and Veterinary Office (FVO)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2011 (03/06/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2011 (03/06/11)

"Against logic there is no armour like ignorance."  Lawrence Peter

  • Food safety
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2011 (27/05/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2011 (27/05/11)

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."  William Shedd

  • Collusion in shipping lines
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2011 (20/05/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2011 (20/05/11)

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Grapefruit: size counts

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2011 (13/05/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2011 (13/05/11)

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."  Peter Ustinov

  • Japan
  • Tax claims
  • Commentary: why bother working?

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2011 (06/05/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2011 (06/05/11)

"We're supposed to have just a small family affair."  Prince William

  • Grapefruit promotions
  • Bactrocera Invadens (BI)
  • Russia and Thailand

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2011 (29/04/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2011 (29/04/11)

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."  Robert Orben

  • Job creation: A national priority
  • Youth in Citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2011 (22/04/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2011 (22/04/11)

"A committee should be made up of an odd number of people; and three is too many." 
Johann Rupert 

  • PMA comes to South Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2011 (15/04/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2011 (15/04/11)

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."  James Thurber

  • Evening in Sunday's River
  • Vietnam
  • Iran

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2011 (08/04/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2011 (08/04/11)

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."  Charles Swindall

  • Export requirements for Bangladesh and Mauritius
  • CGA Board
  • Russia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2011 (01/04/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2011 (01/04/11)

"Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools."  Irish Proverb

  • Southern African citrus estimate for 2011
  • Maputo workshop

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2011 (25/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2011 (25/02/11)

"Big girls need big diamonds."  Elizabeth Taylor

  • Citrus Marketing Forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2011 (18/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2011 (18/02/11)

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."  Oscar Levant

  • Japan
  • Transport costs - the big issue in 2011

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2011 (11/03/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2011 (11/03/11)

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."  S. Goldwyn

  • Variety Focus Groups and Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Citrus Academy
  • Roads
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2011 (04/03/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2011 (04/03/11)

"When you come to a fork in the road….take it."   Yogi Berra

  • CGA Board meeting, Variety Focus Groups and Citrus Marketing Forum
  • Variety Focus Groups
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2011 (25/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2011 (25/02/11)

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."  John Ruskin

  • The 2011 season has begun!
  • Letsitele citrus rail workshop
  • Citrus Cultivar Management Company
  • Grower Roadshows and Packhouse workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2011 (18/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2011 (18/02/11)

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." 
Chinese Proverb

  • Clementine growers' - know your production and packing costs
  • Grower roadshows and packhouse workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2011 (11/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2011 (11/02/11)

"In Scotland there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes."  Billy Connelly

  • Weather playing a big role
  • Morocco
  • Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2011 (04/02/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2011 (04/02/11)

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."  Michael Althsuler

  • Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Board
  • Thailand opens access for South African citrus
  • Grapefruit promotion campaign

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2011 (28/01/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2011 (28/01/11)

"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."  Confucius

  • Citrus Foundation Block (CFB) now secure
  • 2011 Tree census
  • 1-Citrus
  • Grower Roadshows and packhouse workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2011 (21/01/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2011 (21/01/11)

"There are two things people want more than sex and money – recognition and praise." 
Mary Kay Ash

  • New security rules in EU
  • Container weighing to become a reality?
  • New York apples
  • Grower Roadshows and other meetings

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2011 (14/01/11)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2011 (14/01/11)

"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance."  Juvenal

  • All the best for 2011
  • Fruit Logistica
  • Grower Roadshow and other meetings

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