Our 2021-22 season started off on a very positive note with good fertility on all varieties. We had high expectation of a very promising season on the back of COVID-19 pandemic. Little did we know that another wave of new variants would strike around the world and the outbreak of the Russia/Ukraine war was totally not expected.
Like the rest of the agricultural world we were faced with huge increases in the basic costs of production needs and enormous increases in freight rates. Unfortunately our industry were not able to pass on any of these increased costs to our final customers. This has resulted in the worst financial position one can think off. We were as much affected by very poor logistical services as the rest of the world. Unfortunately we had to deal with many challenges not planned for.
During our peak season, week 1t o week 4 we have received on average 250 mm rain whilst we were not supposed to receive any rain during harvest.
Despite all of this challenges we managed to export 5750 tons of grapes, just 2 % below our initial crop estimate.
