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Peach farmers offered cash to end Tulbagh cannery contracts

Premier is offering producers R3,250 per tonne to end their contractual obligation to supply Tulbagh cannery

Pink peach blossoms on a farm outside Tulbagh. Photo: Greg Dor
The Premier Group is offering Western Cape peach producers R3,250 per tonne to settle their supply agreements as it closes its Tulbagh fruit-processing factory.
Producers who accept the offer will receive payment by the end of October but will give up contractual rights.
The offer, communicated by the Premier Producer Committee, comes as more than 200 producers with about 2,000 hectares of orchards face uncertainty over where their fruit will be processed.
The settlement applies to contracted peach tonnage according to each producer’s delivery quota.
Charl Herbst, chair of the Canning Fruit Producers’ Association negotiations committee and a mixed-fruit farmer from Tulbagh, described it as a voluntary commercial settlement…

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