According to this article, choosing the correct paprika cultivar and attention to production requirements are vital factors for success.
Paprika, as an alternative crop, has saved a number of former tobacco farmers in the Brits and Ohrigstad areas from ruin. Not only is the domestic market for paprika growing steadily, but the export market is also favourable.
The success of the South African paprika industry on the export market depends on the quality of its product, says Kobus Serfontein, plant pathologist at the Vegetable and Ornamental Plants Research Institute at
