Table Grape Production

The Southern African table grape industry is over a century old but remains dynamic in the true sense of constant change. It is through the determined efforts of breeders and intellectual property companies, as well as growers and exporters, who are committed to providing their customers with a premium product, that the introduction of new and improved table grape varieties from local and international breeders, keeps the industry at the forefront of technological advancement and international competitiveness.

This course covers the following topics:

• Basic plant structures


• Manipulation tools


• Vine development


• Winter pruning


• Summer manipulations


• Girdling


• Crop control bunch prep


• Irrigation


• Basic Principles


• Operation of the Irrigation system


• Plant nutrition


• Introduction


• Basic nutrition principles


• Nutrition deficiencies


• IPM


• Introduction


• Monitoring


• Pests


• Diseases


• Disease management


• Virus Diseases


• Phytoplasmas


• Bacterial Diseases


• Fungal Diseases