Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Observations on Irrigation

With a better retaining system, Swaziland could utilize the climate. The Winters are mild enough that food could be grown all year long with irrigation. Crops that thrive in cooler weather could be grown during the Swazi Winter. Warm weather crops can be grown during their Summer. This Summer almost no area of the Country was without adequate rain fall. This has been the best year of rain fall for quite a long time. With the right rotation of crops most good farming areas can grow 2 crops per year. This is already happening in smaller garden plots. It would be good is agriculture training were added to the University curriculum.

Hey, by the way today was the first day we have not used the fans since early November. It was a beautiful Fall like day for us. We love this weather.

Have a team from BFC coming in Friday so things are getting quite busy.

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