Category: IRRIGATION

Murphy said regulatory progress made in the past five years had allowed South Africa to catch up with other countries that had legalised cannabis production earlier. To date, the South African Health Product Authority had issued 55 cannabis cultivation permits. Limited access to the legal medical market for patients, equity concerns with regard to traditional…

The recent Constitutional Court decision on the transferability and trading of water rights will create uncertainty and erode investor confidence in the agricultural sector, stakeholders have said. The Constitutional Court granted the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS) leave to appeal against a decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on the transferability and…

Egon Zunckel and his sons, Tyson and Carl, have been implementing conservation agriculture practices, especially no-till, on their farm’s commercial mixed grains operation since 1996. Yet they continue researching and experimenting with ways to improve on the delicate balancing act of increasing crop yields profitably while using natural resources, such as water, ever more sustainably.…

The global-smart irrigation market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 15,2% from 2021 to 2030, according to Quince Market Insights. And remarkably, this is off an already a huge base: the market reached an estimated value of US$1,15 trillion (about R17,5 trillion) in 2021. In its January 2022 global report, Quince Market…

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes were found to be consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are completely broken and things aren’t improving. Large-scale irrigation infrastructure projects are back on the development agenda in…

The global-smart irrigation market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 15,2% from 2021 to 2030, according to Quince Market Insights. And remarkably, this is off an already a huge base: the market reached an estimated value of US$1,15 trillion (about R17,5 trillion) in 2021. In its January 2022 global report, Quince Market…

Valley Irrigation, The Leader in Precision Irrigation®, has acquired PrecisionKing, a Mississippi-based ag tech company with products focused on moisture monitoring, pump control and remote sensing, especially of flood irrigation. “We are excited about this acquisition for many reasons,” says Darren Siekman, Vice President of Water Delivery & Business Development for Valley. “It strengthens our…

he Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a $120 million approval to complete the construction of the Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam in Taraba State. The dam is intended to generate electricity, provide water for population supply and irrigation. The Kashimbila hydroelectric project in Taraba State in eastern Nigeria is progressing. The government of this West African…

The new Sudanese government has obtained a grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The pan-African financial institution has decided to finance a project to install solar pumps for irrigation in two states of this North African country. The loan of US$ 21.7 million will go to the states of West Kordofan and North Kordofan.…

During his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement delivered on Wednesday (27 October), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana announced that government planned to increase spending on infrastructure from nearly R67 billion in 2022/23 to almost R113 billion in 2025/26. This would include the rehabilitation of current infrastructure, as well as the building of new roads, bridges,…