Die legendariese Paarlse boer Aat Hoekstra is Maandagoggend in die ouderdom van 91 in sy slaap oorlede. <\/p>\n
Aat was die stigter en eienaar van die Hoekstra-groep sakeondernemings, en is in 1930 in Gravenzande, Holland, gebore, waar sy familie met druiwe en blomme geboer het.<\/p>\n
Nadat hy deur die swaarkry van die Groot Depressie en die Tweede W\u00eareldoorlog geleef het, het hy in 1950 \u2013toegerus met sy kennis van tafeldruiwe en blomme \u2013 besluit om na Suid-Afrika te reis om die geleenthede aan die suidpunt van die vasteland te verken.<\/p>\n
Hy kon sy Europese vaardighede by Suid-Afrikaanse toestande aanpas onder die mentorskap van Jan Kirsten, een van die suksesvolste tafeldruifkwekers in die Paarl. <\/p>\n
Sy natuurlike talent vir beide die produksie- en sakekant van boerdery het hom gou in staat gestel om die plaas Nancy in 1954 te koop. <\/p>\n
Hier het Aat saam met sy vrou, Annaleen, en hul twee dogters, Maleen en Annette, deur bloed, sweet, harde werk en \u2019n entrepreneursgees Hoekstra Fruit Farms tot een van die suksesverhale van landboubesigheid in Suid-Afrika gebou. <\/p>\n
Produksieaktiwiteite op Nancy het begin met snyblomproduksie en later met tafeldruiwe. Namate geleenthede voorgekom het, is meer plase by die Hoekstra-onderneming gevoeg, waaronder Morewag, Sonneskyn, Westland, Kruis en Estherdal.<\/p>\n
Aat en Maleen het gedurende die somer van 1996 begin om Hoekstra-superdruiwe na die VK en Europa uit te voer. Die Hoekstra Super Grapes-handelsmerk was \u2019n onmiddellike sukses in die mark en die Hoekstra-druiwe-handelsmerk was vir \u2019n aantal jare die maatstaf van uitstekende gehalte met \u2019n uitstekende eetervaring in die VK en Europese markte.<\/p>\n
N\u00e1 blootstelling aan die enorme verskeidenheid kultivars wat in die blommew\u00eareld beskikbaar is, was Aat voortdurend op soek na verbeterde tafeldruifkultivars. Prime Seedless en Starlight is die bekendste kultivars wat deur Aat in Suid-Afrika gekommersialiseer is. <\/p>\n
Hierdie soektog duur tot vandag toe nog met meer as 100 nuwe kultivars van die Volcani-navorsingsorganisasie in Israel, wat op Aat se plase getoets en ge\u00ebvalueer word \u2013 alles danksy sy betrokkenheid by die maatskappy Plant Genetics, waarvan hy \u2019n aandeelhouer was.<\/p>\n
Aat se nalatenskap as mens en sy bydrae tot die Suid-Afrikaanse tafeldruifbedryf was monumentaal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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