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Emerging farmer: Loyiso Mango collects pallets of bottled olive oil, which is made from hand-picked olives grown on Willie Duminy’s Wêreldsgeluk olive farm near Porterville. Mango has not yet been able to raise the capital to buy his own land to farm his own olives. (David Harrison/M&G)
EMERGING FARMERS

Cape’s lively soil favours olive-oil toil

The local industry makes less than 1% of the olive oil produced around the world every year, but the Western Cape’s climate is perfect for farmers

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