Excellent quality and similar citrus volumes to 2020 expected from drought-stricken Gamtoos
In the Gamtoos Valley they are harvesting lemons, clementines, Novas and navels. Significant volumes will start coming in next week and in two weeks they ll be running at full capacity.
The Kouga Dam (
right) is 4.3% full, and a mere 0.05% of its water is released every day to all of its water users. About half of the farmers in the area have always had access to the low quality water from the Gamtoos River, which is what has pulled many of them through years of drought, but in places the river has run dry and the quality has become almost unusable.