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Foundation Pack
Die Foundation Pack Summer and
Winter Grains Powder Bucket is
spesiaal ontwikkel as 'n volledige
saadbehandeling vir koring, mielies,
sonneblom, graansorghum en rog.
Turbo Seed - K 7888 Act No. 36 of 1947 - Tri-Cure WP - L 8295 Act No. 36 of 1947
144 Avenue 2, Modder East Orchards, Delmas, 2210
Tel: +27 (0) 82 738 0080
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orders@mbfi.co.za
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www.mbfi.co.za
Foundation Pack Powder Bucket het die mielie-opbrengs verhoog
van 16 proewe oor die afgelope twee seisoene van 280 kg/ha.
Kombinasie van statistiese en kommersiële proewe
Opbrengsverhoging per ha
Free State province has shown tremendous growth – from only
45 000 ha in 2007 to 240 000 ha in 2017 – which is five times more
and an increase of 195 000 ha. Mpumalanga also experienced
significant growth, and although not at the same rate as the Free
State, these two provinces are responsible for approximately 85%
of soybean cultivation in South Africa.
The abovementioned information is partly based on the field
boundary framework mapped by the National Crop Statistics
Consortium (NCSC) for the CEC at DAFF. GeoTerraImage, as part
of the NCSC, is responsible for this process and uses Earth
Observation satellites as a base layer to perform this mapping
update.
Earth Observation satellites, with their ability to record data regu
larly over vast regions, prove to be very useful and efficient to
monitor large areas of agricultural cultivation. GeoTerraImage uses
Earth Observation satellites such as Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8 to
perform crop type classifications of individual fields and to analyse
cropping patterns.
Crop type information at field level provides the opportunity to
summarise crop area at district level to analyse the distribution
and area planted for an individual province. This analysis for the
Free State shows that Harrismith, Bethlehem, Vrede, Frankfort
and Reitz were the top five districts in 2007 and are still producing
the most soybeans, as illustrated in
Table 3
.
Similarly in Mpumalanga the top five producing districts in 2007
were Standerton, Ermelo, Bethal, Middelburg and Delmas. These
districts are still the top five and account for 68% of soybean
cultivation in Mpumalanga, as shown in
Table 4
.
The ability of Earth Observation systems to record regular satellite
imagery allows real time analysis of farming practices, cultivation
patterns and crop type trends as illustrated above in the analysis
of soybean growth in South Africa over a ten-year period.
This increased production over the past ten years has several
advantages for South Africa, including the reduction of our de
pendence on imports and more specifically soybean oil and
oilcake imports.
For more information on earth observation of agricultural crop-
ping patterns, contact Fanie Ferreira at
fanie.ferreira@geoterra
image.com
.
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ie Minister van Landbou, Bosbou en Visserye het
op 22 Junie vanjaar ‘n statutêre heffing op sojabone
goedgekeur waarvolgens saadmaatskappye vergoed
kan word vir hul prestasie in die sojaboonsaadmark.
ie heffing wat ingevorder word, sal volgens saadmaatskappye
se markaandeel aan hulle uitbetaal word.
Die teling-en-tegnologieheffing op sojabone is vir twee jaar
goedgekeur, met ingang 1 Maart volgende jaar. Die heffing
is R65/ton vir die eerste jaar en R80/ton vir die tweede jaar.
Vir meer inligting, lees die persverklaring wat daaroor uitgereik
is op Graan SA se webwerf by
www.grainsa.co.za
of skandeer
die QR-kode hierbo. ‘n Volledige artikel hieroor sal ook binnekort
in die tydskrif verskyn.
Heffing sal nuwe
tegnologie ontsluit
SA Graan/Grain
redaksiespan