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Demand booming for South African 'superfood' blueberries
Published Wed, Dec 2, 2020 · 09:50 PM
Villiersdorp, South Africa
FLOPPY hats and face masks on, hundreds of workers carefully pick a bumper crop of blueberries on the sunny slopes of the Groenlandberg, a spur of South Africa's Hottentots Holland Mountains.
Declared a superfood, the purplish fruit has allowed South African producers to sail through the setbacks of the coronavirus pandemic, exporting punnet after punnet of berries all year.
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