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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2017 (22/12/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2017 (22/12/17)
  • Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the CGA staff

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2017 (15/12/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2017 (15/12/17)

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep balancing you must keep moving." Albert Einstein

  • Soft citrus review
  • Long-term changes
  • Soft citrus shipping 2017

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2017 (08/12/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2017 (08/12/17)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein

  • Lemon review
  • Long-term changes
  • Lemon shipping 2017

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2017 (01/12/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2017 (01/12/17)

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."  
Winston Churchill

  • Grapefruit review
  • Long-term changes
  • Grapefruit shipping 2017

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2017 (24/11/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2017 (24/11/17)

"Packaging can be theatre, it can create a story."  Steve Jobs

  • Carton integrity
  • Planning for 2018

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2017 (17/11/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2017 (17/11/17)

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a
hundred."  Woody Allen

  • Chinese on-line retailing
  • Japan - elderly consumers

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2017 (10/11/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2017 (10/11/17)

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."  Abraham Lincoln

  • Citrus Black Spot: River BioScience provides a new product to combat the fungus
  • Bleak outlook for the price of diesel

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2017 (03/11/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 42/2017 (03/11/17)

"There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."  Oscar Levant

  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Phytosanitary Special Market Registrations
  • Change of meeting plans

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2017 (27/10/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2017 (27/10/17)

"The world needs to take notice of the ongoing farm attacks going on in South Africa. People are
being murdered every day."  Ernie Els (on Twitter)

  • Stand together against farm attacks
  • Limpopo Farmer of the Year: Piet Engelbrecht of Piet Citris (Die Piet Engelbrecht Trust)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2017 (20/10/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2017 (20/10/17)

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but in building the new."  Socrates

  • 2018 - not business as usual
  • Southern Hemisphere exports 2016
  • Tree census data

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2017 (13/10/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2017 (13/10/17)

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."  Don Marquis

  • DAFF Coordinating Meeting
  • Feedback from Mitchell Brooke on operational problems at the Durban container terminal (DCT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2017 (06/10/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2017 (06/10/17)

"I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing."  Manny Pacquiao

  • End of year dates
  • Philippines

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2017 (29/09/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2017 (29/09/17)

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."  Oscar Wilde

  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Chinese citrus imports

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2017 (22/09/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2017 (22/09/17)

"What is the point of having a rapier wit if I can’t use it to stab people."  Jeph Jacques

  • Season in review and planning for 2018
  • Vietnam

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2017 (15/09/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2017 (15/09/17)

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."  Rudyard Kipling

  • Southern Hemisphere exports into Asia (tons)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2017 (08/09/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2017 (08/09/17)

"A train station is where a train stops. A bus station is where a bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station."  Anon

  • Russian regulations: Road transport and weight issues
  • Rail transportation in the North gains serious traction
  • Southern African packing capacity

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2017 (01/09/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2017 (01/09/17)

"Marriage is a great institution, but I am not ready for an institution yet."  Mae West

  • Citrus Growers' Association Executive Committe
  • Good pickings at the Citrus Academy
  • Southern African packing capacity

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2017 (25/08/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2017 (25/08/17)

"If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."  I.F. Stone

  • CGA Board
  • More accolades for citrus growers

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2017 (20/08/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2017 (20/08/17)

"When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles."  Pooh Bear

  • Rainfall needed in Western and Eastern Cape
  • False Codling Moth (FCM)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2017 (11/08/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2017 (11/08/17)

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men." 
Joseph Conrad

  • Message from the Citrus Academy: Pick me!
  • Land reform

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2017 (04/08/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2017 (04/08/17)

"Know where to find the information and how to use it – That is the secret of success."  
Albert Einstein

  • CGA AGM
  • Strategic development of rail transportation for citrus exports

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2017 (28/07/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2017 (28/07/17)

"If the only tool that you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." 
Abraham Maslow

  • Interceptions of harmful organisms in the European Union

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2017 (21/07/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2017 (21/07/17)

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."  George Elliot

  • Stay connected
  • The importance of the farmer
  • DAFF invitattion to national roadshow for wood packaging material (ISPM 15)...

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2017 (14/07/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2017 (14/07/17)

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance."  Confucius

  • Southern African citrus lemons

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2017 (07/07/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2017 (07/07/17)

"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."  Barack Obama

  • Southern African citrus industry - serious about the environment

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2017 (30/06/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2017 (30/06/17)

"My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s."  Oscar Wilde

  • Forty four years service to the South African horticultural industry
  • Exports to the European Union
  • "Congratulations" and "goodbyes"

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2017 (23/06/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2017 (23/06/17)

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."  George Bernard Shaw

  • CGA celebrates 20 years

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2017 (16/06/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2017 (16/06/17)

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."  Winston Churchill

  • First break bulk vessel for 2017 arrives in St Petersburg
  • Lemons: Volumes start to grows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2017 (09/06/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2017 (09/06/17)

"Adversity is like a strong wind, it tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."  Arthur Golden

  • Water: A relevant resource to focus on
  • Comrades Marathon
  • The fruit industry value chain road table (FIVCRT) -2

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2017 (02/06/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2017 (02/06/17)

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."  Kurt Vonnegut

  • Western Cape desperate for rain
  • Comrades Marathon
  • The Fruit Industry Value Chain Round Table (FIVCRT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2017 (26/05/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2017 (26/05/17)

"Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."  Christopher Marlowe

  • Quality - the non-negotaibale
  • CGA Market Intelligence Committee

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2017 (19/05/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2017 (19/05/17)

"The thing about Mumbai is that you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed." 
Julian Sands

  • Fruit South Africa attends Fresh Produce India 2017

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2017 (12/05/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2017 (12/05/17)

"The amateurs discuss tactics, the professionals discuss logistics."  Napoleon Bonaparte

  • CGA and Transnet Fruit Rail (TFR) orientation and roadshows
  • Durban Container Terminal (DCT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2017 (05/05/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2017 (05/05/17)

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."  George Bernard Shaw

  • SHAFFE Southern Hemisphere prediction

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2017 (28/04/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2017 (28/04/17)

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."  Nelson Mandela

  • Russian weekly report
  • River BioScience and X-Sit
  • CGA Statistics Book

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2017 (21/04/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2017 (21/04/17)

"Before I refuse to take your question. I have an opening statement."  Ronald Reagan

  • Climatic conditions

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2017 (14/04/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2017 (14/04/17)

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."  Jessamyn West

  • Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
  • Land Reform
  • CGA's role in market intelligence and market engagement
  • Exports from South Africa to South Korea and Japan

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2017 (07/04/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2017 (07/04/17)

"There is only one legend. That’s me."  Roberto Duran

  • Changes at the Citrus Foundation Block
  • Edward Vorster: Citrus legend

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2017 (31/03/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2017 (31/03/17)

"Never confuse movement with action."  Ernest Hemingway

  • New AgriBEE scorecard
  • Freek Dreyer: Citrus legend
  • Citrus Summit questionnaire
  • Estimates for Japan and South Korea

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2017 (24/03/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2017 (24/03/17)

"I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things."  Lech Walesa

  • Citrus legends
  • Hennie le Roux: Citrus legend
  • EU training

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2017 (17/03/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2017 (17/03/17)

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."  Lester B. Pearson

  • Southern African citrus export volume estimate for 2017
  • Chairman Nortje re-elected to helm of CGA
  • CGA Citrus Summit presenations

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2017 (10/03/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2017 (10/03/17)

"The difficulties you will face in life, do not come to destroy you.....they come to show you exactly what you are made of and just how strong you really are."  Anon

  • Falling into humility (a somewhat personal story)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2017 (03/03/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2017 (03/03/17)

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today."  Laurence J. Peter

  • From droughts to dineo
  • CGA group - BEE status
  • Recommended usage restrictions for plant protection products...

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2017 (24/02/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2017 (24/02/17)

"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day."  George Bernard Shaw

  • Citrus Summit - sold out!
  • Africa - opportunity for growth
  • Diesel fuel tax refund system under the spotlight

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2017 (17/02/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2017 (17/02/17)

"If all the worlds a stage, I want to operate the trapdoor."  Paul Beatty

  • Fall armyworm
  • Natual Minimum Wage (NMW)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2017 (10/02/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2017 (10/02/17)

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."  Groucho Marx

  • DAFF pre-season training and PPECB pre-season meeting
  • CRI packhouse workshops
  • CGA Citrus Summit 
  • Argentinean lemon experts getting back to normal

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2017 (03/02/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2017 (03/02/17)

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."  Fred Allen

  • Grower meeting - 9th March
  • DAFF to designate PPECB to carry out EU orchard inspections

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2017 (27/01/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2017 (27/01/17)

"98% of all Harley’s ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home." Anon

  • Citrus Summit - pre-summit tour
  • The Great Fruit Adventure
  • Regulatory freeze in the USA
  • Agricultural Products Agents Council (APAC)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2017 (20/01/17)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2017 (20/01/17)

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government."  Donald Trump

  • Poor quality citrus fruit in Spanish supermarkets in December not from South Africa
  • Export of oranges to the Eurasian Economic Union
  • Seats for CGA Citrus Summit going fast!!

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