If your soil is sandy or clay, dig in plenty of organic matter. Water: Macadamia trees are shallow-rooted, so water weekly from spring through to autumn. In their natural environment, the trees ...

The main reason is the slow harvesting process. While there are ten species of macadamia trees, only 2 produce the pricey nuts and it takes seven to 10 years for the trees to even begin producing ...

The main reason is the slow harvesting process. While there are ten species of macadamia trees, only 2 produce the pricey nuts and it takes seven to 10 years for the trees to even begin producing ...

The Ncera Macadamia Farm in the Eastern Cape was once touted as a sustainable business model for community-owned and ...

He has 3,700 stems of macadamia trees that produce 16 tonnes of nuts annually, a factory for drying the nuts and a nursery with 10,000 seedlings. BY JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD Twenty years ago ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenyan farmers used to grow macadamia trees to shade their coffee bushes. Now they are making so much from the nuts that they are abandoning the beans. The East African nation ...

A government-funded macadamia nut farm in Ncera, Eastern Cape, has failed to get off the ground after two decades, despite hundreds of millions of rands in public funds invested in the project. Its ...