Bred Here, For Here

The Stellenbosch Story

Our only African R&D facility is in Stellenbosch. Here, we develop varieties specifically for local conditions - like Afriditta and Afrizeus butternut, bred through 8 years of multi-location trials across South Africa. At introduction, they weren't planted anywhere else in the world.

That's the difference between adapting global varieties and creating local ones.

Key Crops & Varieties:

Crop

Variety

Performance Claim

Butternut

Afriditta, Afrizeus

7-14 days earlier, 800-1,200g, SA-specific

Onions

Copperhead

Machine-harvest, double haploid

Onions

Python

Transitional type

Tomatoes

Estamino

Rootstock for protected culture

Geographic & Production Context:

  • Western Cape Biotech, Stellenbosch: R&D, tissue culture, molecular diagnostics (fully owned since 2019)
  • Klein-Karoo, Oudtshoorn: Seed production, global supply chain integration
  • Production Context: Research and development hub, seed production for global markets, multi-location variety testing