February 2025

Small Scale Mixed farming

By |2025-02-12T09:31:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Small scale mixed farming in rural Zimbabwe. Image credit MediaWiki

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Mixed Farming

  • This type of farming is undertaken on a small piece of land with the aim of producing crops both for home consumption and sale.
  • It is an intensive type of farming.
  • It […]
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Maize farming in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:33:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Maize farm near Harare

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

Growing conditions and growing area

  • Staple food crop of Zimbabwe.
  • Production is 2.8 million tonnes.
  • Annually with 70% from communal farmers.
  • Main producing area-ecological region 2.
  • Rainfall-minimum 890 mm, otherwise supplement with irrigation temperature about 21° C […]
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Factors influencing farming: Physical or Environmental factors

By |2025-02-12T09:02:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Physical factors also affect agriculture. Image credit irinnews.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Factors influencing farming: Physical or Environmental factors

Temperature

  • These are critical for plant growth because each plant or crop type requires a minimum growing temperature.
  • In temperate latitudes this is 6°C. Below this members of the grass family, including cereals, cannot […]
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Characteristics and methods of small scale mixed farming

By |2025-02-12T09:34:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ox drawn ploughs are used by some small scale mixed farmers. Image credit BBC

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Characteristics and methods of small scale mixed farming

  • The characteristics and methods of small scale mixed farming are uniform across the face of Africa.
  • The land owned by the peasant […]
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Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

By |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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Farming types in Africa: Subsistence farming

By |2025-02-12T09:04:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Subsistence Farming. Image credit wordpress.com

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

  • Subsistence farmers grow traditional crops such as maize, rice, sorghum, groundnuts, rapoko, millet and cassava.
  • They keep livestock in the form of cattle, goats, mules, donkeys, pigs and some poultry.
  • This is done on a small scale […]
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Plantation (estate) farming

By |2025-02-12T09:39:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A tea estate. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Plantation (estate) farming

  • This is the large-scale production, usually of one crop on a large piece of land called an estate, for an extended period of time.
  • The crop grown here may be perennial, that is, grown […]
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Wheat farming in Zimbabwe

By |2025-02-12T09:35:07+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wheat field

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

Growing conditions and growing area

  • Very capital-intensive crop growth mainly by commercial farmers in Zimbabwe.
  • Capital required for seeds, irrigation equipment, fertilizers and machinery.
  • Being a temperate crop, it is grown in winter under irrigation.
  • Rainfall must be […]
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Farming types in Africa: Bush Fallowing

By |2025-02-12T09:04:43+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Maize Field. Image credit wordpress.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa: Subsistence farming:Bush Fallowing

  • In many respects, it is similar to shifting cultivation but differs in that instead of rotating homes, the cultivated land is rotated.
  • The once cultivated area is abandoned without any crops for about five years […]
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Reasons for the decline of plantation farming in Africa

By |2025-02-12T09:40:32+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sugarcane in the Lowveld. Image credit voanews.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Reasons for the decline of plantation farming in Africa

  • Despite the advantages of estate farming estate farming has its problems.
  • They exhaust soils of the same nutrients since one crop may be grown for up to 30 […]
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