farming

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 […]
  

Gezira Irrigation cotton plants. Image credit MIT

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Farming types in Africa:Gezira  versus Lowveld Irrigation schemes

Gezira Irrigation Scheme

• Is one of the largest irrigation schemes in the world
• It is found int the state of   Al Jazirah in Sudan
• It is located at the confluence of the […]
  

Dairy Farm. Image credit abstcm.com

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

• Animal husbandry is the rearing of livestock, cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys by a farmer in order to sustain himself and his nation.
• Commercially, for Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa with the exception of South Africa’s […]
  

Brahman cattle. Image credit agcanada.com

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

• This is the large scale rearing of livestock mainly to produce meat for sale.
• In Zimbabwe however, the ranching has of late been diversified with the farmers not just keeping cattle and sheep but also wildlife […]