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Commercial Crop Farming

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:35:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Commercial Tobacco Farming. Image credit theconversation.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Commercial Crop Farming

Commercial farming involves the growing of crops and the rearing of animals on a large scale for sale of products.
Commercial farming is agribusiness with the farmer aiming to have the highest returns from […]

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Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:34:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cotton field. Farmer.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

Growing conditions and growing area

Zimbabwe is the largest producer of the crop in Africa south of the Sahara.
A bush crop grown in summer using dry land farming.
Rainfall at least 600 mm in the growing season.

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Willowvale Mazda Industry

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:30:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Willowvale Mazda Industry complex

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Industrial studies:Willowvale Mazda Industry

Willowvale Mazda Industry is part of the assembly industries

Assembly Industries

These are industries which bring together parts from different other industries to make a new product.
Examples include car assembly, bicycle manufacture, radio and TV making and the production […]

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Modern Developments in Transport: Road transport

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:30:28+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Google’s Self-driving car. Image credit abclocal.go.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport:Modern Developments in Transport: Road transport

With technology advancement, increase in human population and growth in national, regional and international trade, there has been tremendous improvements in all modes of transport for good and people.
The main aims of these improvements […]

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Problems faced during exploitation of natural resources

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:26:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Mining without capital. A Korokoza descends into a mine. Image credit mg.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Problems of Resources Exploitation

Resources exploitation is not easy and there are many difficulties that are faced which can be grouped into physical factors and human factors.
The following are physical and […]

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Zimbabwe’s forests

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:19:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Msasa trees in spring. Image credit flickr.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Natural Resources: Renewable Resources: Zimbabwe’s forests

Zimbabwe’s natural vegetation is generally described as savanna woodland.
This means that the vegetation consists mainly of tall grass and scattered trees.
The density of trees varies from place to place depending on various […]

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Uses of coniferous forests

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T08:59:36+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Timber from coniferous trees. Image credit thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Uses of coniferous forests

Coniferous forests have also suffered more or less the same fate as the rainforests.
The loss to deforestation has however, been limited by better management styles and their quick maturing characteristic.
Coniferous softwoods […]

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The different types of fishing methods

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:35:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Subsistence fishing using mosquito nets in Malawi. Image credit dw.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Natural Resources: Fishing: Fishing methods

Subsistence fishers use:
basket traps,
hooks and lines,
scoops and dugout canoes.
These are mainly confined to the shallow waters of Lakes Malombe, Chiuta, Chilwa in southern Malawi and swamps of the […]

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The world’s major fisheries

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:20:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

World’s Aquatic habitats. Image credit utexas.edu

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:The world’s major fisheries

Fresh water fishing is important in localized communities.
In most cases the world’s fish comes from the ocean.
Most of the world’s productive ocean fisheries are located in the shallow waters of continental shelves […]

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Small scale energy sources and plants:Bio-fuel

By Rachel Majaya|2025-02-12T09:45:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Jatropha plant. Image credit jatropha.org.za

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Small scale energy sources and plants:Bio-fuel

is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes,
such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion,
rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil […]

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