Die toekoms van Langeberg and Ashton Foods se inlegfabriek is steeds in die weegskaal met produsente wat op hete kole wag om nog beleggers nader te hark sodat hulle die fabriek by Tiger Brands kan koop. <\/p>\n
Sowat 150 produsente het \u2019n ko\u00f6perasie gestig in die hoop om die fabriek te verkry en die sluiting te verhoed. <\/p>\n
Volgens Jacques Jordaan, die uitvoerende hoof van die Inmaakprodusentever\u00adeniging (IPV), is \u2019n moontlike belegger besig met \u2019n omsigtigheidsondersoek waarvan die uitslag in Maart of April bekend sal wees.<\/p>\n
Tiger Brands het in 2020 aangedui dat hy die sagtevrugtebedryf wil verlaat en in Junie 2022 aangekondig dat die fabriek gesluit gaan word. Die produsente het aangebied om die fabriek te koop, maar dit was \u2019n uitdaging om die nodige finansiering te bekom. Tiger Brands het uiteindelik \u2019n sperdatum van einde Maart vanjaar gestel, maar wil dit eerder verkoop as om die deure te sluit.<\/p>\n
Die sluiting van die inlegfabriek sal groot gevolge vir Ashton en die bre\u00ebr omgewing inhou. Sowat 250 werkers is permanent in diens en 4 000 werkers het seisoenale werk. Die fabriek is een van die Langeberg-munisipaliteit se grootste kli\u00ebnte en sy sluiting sal hul inkomste be\u00efnvloed. Sowat 300 boere lewer vrugte aan die fabriek. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie boere is nou besig om te oes en dit lyk mooi. Hul kwotas is drasties gesny, maar hulle het vroeg in die seisoen geweet en kon alternatiewe markte soek,\u201d het Jordaan ges\u00ea. \u201cHierdie perskes kan nie uitgevoer word nie en boere moet kyk na ander opsies soos om dit te droog. Inmaakvrugte se raklewe is kort, omdat dit optimaal ryp moet wees kort voordat dit ingemaak word.\u201d <\/p>\n
Dit is die grootste inmaakfabriek in Suid-Afrika en een van slegs twee. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie impak op die omgewing sal baie groot wees en almal hou asem op. Die boere wat aan die fabriek lewer, plant sowat 2 000 hektaar vrugte. Indien hulle hierdie hektare met ander gewasse, soos druiwe of pruime, moet vervang, sal dit op sy beurt weer \u2019n groot uitwerking op daardie markte h\u00ea,\u201d het Jordaan ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
Volgens die fabriek se webwerf word hul produkte onder die Gold Reef- en Silverleaf-name of supermarkte se eie name bemark en word dit oor die w\u00eareld heen verskeep. Benewens ingelegte vrugte word puree-konsentrate, wat gebruik word vir sap, konfyte, babakos, souse en lekkers, ook vervaardig. Die vrugte wat in die Suid-Afrikaanse staatmaker, Mrs Balls Chutney, gebruik word, het ook hul oorsprong in die fabriek. <\/p>\n
Dani\u00ebl Lubbe, die munisipale bestuurder van die Langeberg-munisipaliteit, het ges\u00ea die fabriek is een van die grootste bydraers tot die plaaslike ekonomie \u2013 nie net wat betalings vir munisipale dienste betref nie, maar ook werkskepping.<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2019n Groot aantal van ons boere verskaf vrugte vir verwerking vir die plaaslike en internasionale mark. Dit is absoluut krities vir die plaaslike ekonomie dat \u2019n suksesvolle ooreenkoms bereik word waar die kommersi\u00eble boere en werknemers die Langeberg and Ashton Foods-fabriek kan koop en as \u2019n ko\u00f6perasie bedryf,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie sluiting van die fabriek moenie eens \u2019n opsie wees nie, want dit sal tot grootskaalse werkloosheid en armoede tot die nadeel van Ashton, die munisipaliteit en die landbou-sektor wat aan die fabriek lewer, lei.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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