South Africa stops citrus exports to EU early
Deon Joubert, Special Envoy to Europe from the Citrus Growers Association calls it a proactive decision. "This year there have been eight interceptions and that is less than last year. Today one interception was revoked and more may follow. We are pleased with how the season went. We could have gone on but wanted to show that we are responsible about exporting. Europe is a good market and at this time of the year we did not want to risk more interceptions. We appreciate the position that the exports to the EU has and I think we have proven that our additional measures helped."