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The value of independent cultivar evaluation SA CHERRY GROWERS' ASSOCIATION SA KERSIE PRODUSENTE VERENIGING 31 July 2018

PROVAR BACKGROUND • Established in 2013 as cultivar development and support company • 2015 Hortgro-Pome, Hortgro-Stone, DFTS and CFPA engaged Provar as independent cultivar evaluation company • Focus on independent, objective and scientific evaluation and data management • Ensuring complete independence and facilitating buy-in of potential clients • Serving private commercial fruit entities, fruit breeders, licensees, IP owners and SA Fruit Industry

ACCUMULATED INCOME LOSS / PROFIT PER HA OVER 12 YEAR PERIOD • Establishment cost R/ha • Production cost Ton/ha • Farm Gate income R/ton • Royalties not included Apple in Koue Bokkeveld + R 2 263 653 3000000,00 2000000,00 Rands 1000000,00 0,00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -1000000,00 Years Apple in Koue Bokkeveld - R 1 542 832 0,00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -500000,00 Rands -1000000,00 -1500000,00 -2000000,00 Years

ACCUMULATED INCOME LOSS / PROFIT PER HA OVER 12 YEAR PERIOD Warm Bokkeveld Late Nectarine -R 749 121 0,00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -200000,00 Rands -400000,00 -600000,00 -800000,00 Years Warm Bokkeveld Late Nectarine R 3 030 630 4000000,00 3000000,00 2000000,00 Rands 1000000,00 0,00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -1000000,00 Years

POME FRUIT & TABLE GRAPE IMPORTS 2011 - 2016 Total 619 144 28 546

STONE FRUIT IMPORTS 2011 - 2016 Total 10 174 215 541 698 429

EVALUATION STRATEGY A. FRUIT EXHIBITIONS - TASTELAB TM • Host industry tastings for IP Owners, Breeders and Licencees as first step of product development process B. SCREENING FRUIT EVALUATION • 4 Stages visual & Sensory fruit evaluation (at harvest, mid cold storage, end storage and end shelf life) • Storage & Shelf life potential C. ADVANCED SCREENING - Identification of the best selections and / or cultivars • Tree characteristics • Phenology • 4 Stages visual & Sensory fruit evaluation • Storage & Shelf life potential D. FULL TRIAL EVALUATION - Testing Commercial Potential of cultivars and selections • Tree characteristics • Phenology • Harvest Indexing and Maturity Indexing • 4 Stages Visual & Sensory fruit evaluation • Storage & Shelf life potential

EVALUATION STRATEGY (CONT.) • External Benchmarking - Anonymous ranking according to evaluation index • Comparative Reporting - between cultivars, seasons, areas, countries • Panel evaluation – come and join evaluation and take part in process

EVALUATION STRATEGY (CONT.) • To apply latest technology in evaluation Inhouse IT development Data integration Applications Real-time reporting " What gets measured gets improved.“ PETER DRUCKER

CULTEVA TM WEB BASED DATA INTEGRATION PLATFORM

CULTEVA TM MOBILE

AUTOMATED REPORT

OTHER SUPPORT AREAS • Rootstock evaluation • Chilling requirement assessment • Consumer panel evaluation • S-Alleles & Pollination studies • Specialised trials

in association with Table of Plum Cultivars and possible Cross-pollinators in order of flowering from early to late Version: 2017.6 Suplum 6 (Angeleno) CHOICE OF CROSS-. Harry Pickstone* POLLINATOR. Sweet Christine Most commonly recommended cross-pollinator African Delight Purple Majesty Southern Belle African Rose* Red Diamond Sun Supreme Ruby Crunch accounting for flowering time and cold units Sun Breeze Late Shefer Black Pearl Starplum 6 Larry Anne Green Red Suplum 11 Suplum 39 Earlamoon (Eg. 'Pioneer' as cross-pollinator for 'African Ruby Sun Ruby Star Big Night Rubynell Sapphire Souvenir Pioneer* SunKiss Songold Fortune Lamoon Delight') Laetitia Polaris K2-135 K2-261 Marco Inbar Mark MAIN CULTIVAR . African Rose* Self Compatible Pioneer* Self Compatible African Delight Pioneer † Suplum 6 (Angeleno)** Harry Pickstone and either Fortune or Souvenir ** Sapphire Harry Pickstone † † Purple Majesty Harry pickstone and Ruby Nell Black Pearl Fortune Souvenir , or Ruby Crunch K2-135 Ruby Sun Harry Pickstone Souvenir Inbar Big Night Mark SunKiss Either Sapphire or Harry Pickstone Green Red Red Diamond † † Sun Breeze Either SunKiss or Harry Pickstone Ruby Crunch Fortune † Afrigold Sun Supreme Sun Supreme Laetitia Marco Suplum 11 Suplum 39 Starplum 6 † † Larry Anne Laetitia or Songold Laetitia Songold Songold Laetitia K2-261 Earlamoon Lamoon Late Shefer Sweet Christine Polaris (Starplum 7) Southern Belle or Songold Ruby Star X Southern Belle Songold or Ruby Star *Self compatible and generally at least semi-compatible with most cultivars **Dependent on area and time of flowering Table Key: Self-compatible † Untested, but commonly recommended cross-pollinator Genetically compatible † Untested, but commonly recommended cross-pollinator with a secondary pollinator Genetically compatible and commonly recommended cross-pollinator Genetically incompatible, not reccomended as cross-pollinator Genetically compatible and commonly recommended cross-pollinator with a secondary pollinator Untested, genetic relationship unknown

EVALUATION SITES - POME • Sites identified by industry representing production areas: • Koue Bokkeveld - Nooitgedacht • Grabouw - Oak Valley • Wolseley - Mostertshoek • Vyeboom - Estonia • Langkloof - Du Toit Group

EVALUATION SITES – STONE FRUIT • Sites identified by industry representing production areas: • Robertson - Klipboschlaagte • Warm Bokkeveld - Lushof • Breërivier - Rouzelle • Montagu - Cape Dry Fruit Farm • Naboomspruit - Ginger Gypsy • Bergrivier - Boland Landbouskool • Tulbagh - To be identified

PROVAR CERTIFICATION

tastelab.provar.co.za

CLIENT VALUE PROPOSITION • Introduce new cultivars and selections – invited to Tastelab industry fruit exhibitions • Collect evaluation data & own Reporting platform on Culteva TM • Access to Provar standardised evaluation protocol and Evaluation Manual • Planting and tree management in Provar evaluation plots – industry funded • Independent evaluation data and reports through evaluations by Provar • Industry funded Full trial evaluation

INDUSTRY VALUE PROPOSITION • Employ Standardised evaluation protocols, • Manage & supply unbiased cultivar information data, • Apply latest technology on accessible data integration & reporting platform, • Support new product development process, • Supply verified decision making information to reduce / avoid risks associated with planting new cultivars.

PROVAR INTERNATIONAL FOOTPRINT MARCH 2019 ROMANIA

Goal in serving Clients & Industry is to turn evaluation data into information, and information into planting insight

PROPOSED SACGA PROJECT: SCOPE • Provar Advanced Screening Evaluation • Phenological & Physiological Tree evaluation • 4 Stage Fruit Evaluation MI, visual, and sensory attributes • Performed at Nooitgedacht • 3 cv’s from 3 IP managers = 9 cv’s total • Control cultivar(s)

SACGA PROPOSED PROJECT: REPORTING & FEEDBACK • Reports from the Culteva ™ platform Comparable data • Feedback presentations • SACGA members and IP managers • Provar Tastelab event(s) Accessible to everyone (participating and viewing results)

PROPOSED SACGA PROJECT: FUTURE WORK • 2018 Data as foundation • Multi-seasonal Evaluation • HORTGRO Evaluation Sites • Multiple sites, multiple seasons • …Rootstocks?

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