Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Gauteng

The practice of cultivating trees on farms alongside other agricultural production has a long history throughout the world. For thousands of years, people have been harvesting fruits and nuts from trees, making hay from the grass underneath or growing staple crops along the natural tree boundary that has defined their property.People have always known that trees have their place on farms. Why? Because… Trees bring diversity. Diversity of produce, diversity of landscape to support farming effort

When you take a walk through the authentic Romanian countryside, you will see people working on their fields from the early morning until the evening. You will see them manually weeding rows of corn and beans, you will see them carefully planting potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots, or beets on some plots, while sowing clover and alfalfa over other parts as animal fodder. Every inch of their land is utilized for producing food for their families and their animals.These are subsistence farmers. Th

Irrigation potential through groundwater is determined by the yield potential of the underlying aquifer ( underground water body). The construction of a new groundwater well should therefore be based on the available data and information available to the agencies involved in groundwater development and management in a given area.   Bore wells play a major part in irrigation of agricultural lands. The cost and setup of drilling bore well is a crucial economic factor for a lot of

To manage variability of soil and environment different strategies have been applied. Precision agriculture is among best for such management techniques. Precision farming is known with different names like precision agriculture, satellite farming or site-specific crop production. It is a farming administration of growing productivity, whereas decreasing production costs and minimizing the environmental impact of farming based on observing and responding to intra-field variations. It relies o