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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 […]
  

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 […]
  

Hippo Valley Estate. Image credit wordpress.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:The major estates of Zimbabwe: Hippo Valley case study

• Hippo Valley estate is located in the S.E Lowveld of Zimbabwe.
• Size-Large land of size 111 4555 ha leased to a company by government.
• Ownership-Ownership is by Anglo-American Corporation […]
  

Sprinkler irrigation are a form of modern irrigation. Image credit financialgazette.co.zw

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Irrigation Farming:Types of Irrigation

• irrigation may be divided into two groups namely:
• traditional forms of irrigation and
• modern ones.

Traditional forms of irrigation

• Under traditional methods, there’s the water wheel moved by draught power […]
  

Vaal Barrage dam in South Africa. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:The Main Irrigation Schemes of Africa and Zimbabwe

• Almost every country in Africa has irrigation schemes of different sizes, most of them too small to note but the big ones are few due to the […]