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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2019 (20/12/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 51/2019 (20/12/19)

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others."  Bob Hope

  • AgriBEE
  • Office closure
  • CGA Roadshows 2020

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2019 (13/12/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2019 (13/12/19)

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."  Albert Einstein

  • Ports regulator (PRSA) decreases export container tariff by 20%

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2019 (06/12/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2019 (06/12/19)

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
George Bernard Shaw

  • The 2019 Southern African citrus season

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2019 (29/11/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2019 (29/11/19)

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."  Jim Rohn

  • 2019 Valencia season review
  • Dates for 2020

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2019 (22/11/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2019 (22/11/19)

"Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power."  Seth Berkley

  • 2019 Soft citrus seasonal review

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2019 (15/11/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2019 (15/11/19)

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."  Napoleon Hill

  • 2019 Navel seasonal review

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2019 (08/11/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2019 (08/11/19)

"The time is always right, to do what is right."  Martin Luther King, Jnr.

  • 2019 Lemon seasonal review

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2019 (01/11/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2019 (01/11/19)

"Our words have power, but our actions shape lives."  Rachel Hollis

  • 2019 Grapefruit seasonal review
  • Citrus phytosanitary market registration

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2019 (15/10/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2019 (15/10/19)

"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."  Immanuel Kant

  • Formation of World Citrus Organisation

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2019 (04/10/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2019 (04/10/19)

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."  Confucius

  • Philippines
  • Citrus Statistics
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2019 (27/09/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2019 (27/09/19)

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."  Plutarch

  • Be curious
  • Citrus Statistics
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Citrus Marketing Form (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2019 (20/09/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2019 (20/09/19)

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."  George Bernard Shaw

  • CGA Board - 10 years service
  • Citrus Export short courses
  • Annual Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2019 (13/09/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2019 (13/09/09)

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves."  August Stringberg

  • Brexit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2019 (06/09/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2019 (06/09/19)

"Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume."  Ethiopian Proverb

  • Focus Groups

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2019 (30/08/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2019 (30/08/19)

"At the end of the day it’s not about what you have, or even what you have accomplished. It’s about who you have lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back." 
Denzel Washington

  • Japan

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2019 (23/08/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2019 (23/08/19)

"If you owe your bank a hundred pounds you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."
John Maynard Keyes

  • Exports from Maputo Port vital for addressing Durban port congestion
  • BFAP Baseline Agriculture Outlook 2018-2028

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2019 (16/08/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2019 (16/08/19)

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."  Thomas Szasz

  • CRI Integrated Pest and Disease Management workshop 2019
  • Rail transport only viable alternative to Durban Port congestion (Mitchell Brooke)
  • BFAP Basline Agriculture Outlook 2018-2028

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2019 (09/08/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2019 (09/08/19)

"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."  Toni Morrison

  • Agri's Got Talent (AGT)
  • Dam levels

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2019 (02/08/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2019 (02/08/19)

"When in doubt, don’t."  Benjamin Franklin

  • SHAFFE data

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2019 (26/07/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2019 (26/07/19)

"Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl." 
Evan Esar

  • Israel Nemoarani
  • CGA Board
  • Confronting Climate Change (CCC) - Carbon tax

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2019 (19/07/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2019 (19/07/19)

"It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world."  Nelson Mandela

  • Citrus Foundation Block (CFB)
  • Agri's Got Talent (AGT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2019 (12/07/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2019 (12/07/19)

"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."  Bob Edwards

  • Farmer's Weekly Agribusiness Africa Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2019 (05/07/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2019 (05/07/19)

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."  Isaac Newton

  • June - Youth month
  • Citrus Business Administartion short courses
  • CRI Integrated Pest and Disease Management workshop 2019

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2019 (28/06/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2019 (28/06/19)

"Trust, but verify."  Russian proverb

  • Audit on the application of FCM management system on citrus intended for export to the European Union (EU)
  • Focus on Asia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2019 (21/06/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2019 (21/06/19)

"Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people."
Steve Jobs

  • Citrus rail transport strategy gets the all go from Transnet

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2019 (14/06/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2019 (14/06/19)

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."  Albert Einstein

  • Thirty years service
  • First bulk reefer vessel with citrus discharges in China
  • Trade wars

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2019 (07/06/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2019 (07/06/19)

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."  Mark Twain

  • Citrus Academy short courses
  • Southern Hemisphere: Expectations for 2019

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2019 (31/05/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2019 (31/05/19)

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."  Herman Melville

  • Citrus Business Administration short course
  • Welcome back Minister Didiza
  • HLB - Asian Greening

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2019 (24/05/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2019 (24/05/19)

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."  Bill Gates

  • Citrus exports to Middle East from Maputo in 2019: Mitchell Brooke calls for a rethink

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2019 (17/05/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2019 (17/05/19)

"After China and India, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century."  Pankaj Mishra

  • 2018 average returns
  • Indonesia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2019 (10/05/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2019 (10/05/19)

"A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be?
I always say 'How to Build a Boat." 
Steven Alexander Wright

  • Mitchell Brooke
  • First break bulk vessel to China

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2019 (03/05/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2019 (03/05/19)

"The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek."
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

  • India

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2019 (26/04/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2019 (26/04/19)

"It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies."  Che Guevara

  • Agrarian reform in Peru

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2019 (19/04/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2019 (19/04/19)

"Easy is not an option…. No days off. Never quit. Be fearless. Talent you have naturally; skill is only developed by hours and hours of work."  Usain Bolt

  • Citrus legend - The late Gerrit van der Merwe
  • Agri's Got Talent (AGT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2019 (12/04/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2019 (12/04/19)

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."  Colin Powell

  • Citrus legend - Milaan Thalwitzer
  • Indonesia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2019 (05/04/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2019 (05/04/19)

"In a peculiar set of circumstances the UK may see the end of May before they see the end of April."  Anon

  • Brexit
  • Citrus legends
  • David Lotter - Citrus legend

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2019 (29/03/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2019 (29/03/19)

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." 
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  • Hannes de Waal joins CGA Executive Committee
  • Exports from Maputo Port on track for 2019 (Mitchell Brooke)
  • CGA Citrus Summit feedback

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2019 (22/03/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2019 (22/03/19)

"I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters."  Solomon Short

  • The 2019 Citrus Marketing Forum's 2019 estimate unpacked
  • Citrus pre-season workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2019 (15/03/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2019 (15/03/19)

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."  Plato

  • Record year for citrus exports
  • CGA Citrus Summit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2019 (01/03/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2019 (01/03/19)

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."  Paul Valery

  • Focus on lemons
  • Save the date: Maputo Port tour and tour of DP World: 27 March 2019
  • CGA Citrus Summit update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2019 (22/02/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2019 (22/02/19)

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."  Abraham Lincoln

  • Obituary: Gerrit Booyens
  • Organic, fair and ethical trade event
  • Citrus pre-season workshops
  • CGA Citrus Summit update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2019 (15/02/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2019 (15/02/19)

"My biggest fear is that when I die my wife will sell my bicycles for what I told her they cost." Anon

  • CGA members meeting 14 March 2019
  • Some thoughts from Fruit Logistica
  • CGA Citrus Summit update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2019 (08/02/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2019 (08/02/19)

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."  Dalai Lama

  • Response to trade media reports on the European citrus situation
  • Ohrigstad/Burgersfort elections
  • Citrus Academy audio-visual series
  • CGA Citrus Summit update: Resource centre

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2019 (01/02/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2019 (01/02/19)

"Trump’s wall is a concern – but we will get over it."  Anon

  • Growers must embrace AgriBEE (message from the chairman)
  • Staff recognised for their service
  • CGA Citus Summit update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2019 (25/01/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2019 (25/01/19)

"Against logic there is no armour like ignorance."  Laurence J. Peter

  • Some facts about the Economic Partnership Agreement
  • Burgesfort/Ohrigstad
  • CGA Citrus Summit update

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2019 (18/01/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2019 (18/01/19)

"Africa is too rich to be poor."  Ben Murray Bruce

  • DAFF ministers service delivery forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2019 (11/01/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2019 (11/01/19)

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."  Abraham Lincoln

  • Revised citrus FMS
  • EU Commission review of Imazalil as post-harvest treatment

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2019 (04/01/19)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2019 (04/01/19)

"Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it."  Chinese Proverb

  • Don't miss the 2019 CGA Citrus Summit

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