According to South African press reports, a tree rehabilitation plan is underway in Langkloof in the southern Cape to resuce some 360,000 damaged fruit trees following hailstorms in November 2006.
Seven farms in the Haarlem area were apparently affected and now the Haarlem Action Committee that is carrying out the work is appealing for funding as it is training 200 farm workers to rehabilitate the trees so that they will hopefully bear fruit next season. Golf-ball sized hailstones stripped bark off trees late in the spring exposing them to fungal infections and insects.
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