River Bioscience was established in 2004 as a sister company of Citrus Research International (CRI). The company is a fully owned commercial subsidiary of the Southern African Citrus Growers Association.

The chief objectives of the company are to commercialise innovations, developments and discoveries arising from CRI research and to provide the southern African citrus industry with innovative and useful products aimed at improving its global competitiveness. Profits are returned to the industry’s research and technical support structures, under the direct control of the Citrus Growers of southern Africa, enabling CRI to improve and increase its services to this industry.

Although River Bioscience’s primary market is citrus, this is by no means the company’s only market. River Bioscience is committed to expanding into other sectors of agriculture in South Africa, Africa and further afield.

River Bioscience has its main office in Port Elizabeth and its production facility in Hermitage in the Sundays River Valley, the heartland of the citrus industry in the Eastern Cape.

The production staff at the Addo facility