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Agriculture: Introduction

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:36:54+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Agriculture is a critical part of the Zimbabwean economy. Image credit care.ca

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture: Introduction

Agriculture is a primary activity in which man extracts food and industrial raw materials from nature on a production unit known as a farm.
As a result, this industry or activity is called farming.

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Human Farm Inputs: Seeds and Fertilizer

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:36:44+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Fertilizer is often a critical input

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Agriculture:Human Farm Inputs: Seeds and Fertilizer
Seeds

These determine the germination rate, growth status and productivity level of crops.
Traditional farmers use seeds from the previous year’s harvest.
These seed mostly would have been damaged by fungi, insects and rodents such that their […]

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Cotton farming in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:36:27+02:00January 24th, 2023|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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The role of service industries

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:36:05+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Banks provide essential services.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: The role of service industries

A service industry is an industry which provides back-up to other sectors of the economy such as primary and secondary industries as well as to the people or labour force for them to function well.
They are […]

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Informal Cross-border trade

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:35:38+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cross border buses at RoadPort.

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Trade: Informal Cross-border trade

COMESA defines informal cross-border trade (ICBT) as a form of trade that is unrecorded in official statistics, and is carried out by small businesses in the region.
Informal cross border traders are vendors who travel to neighbouring […]

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Longtitude and time calculations

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:35:21+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Different Time Zones

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Transport and Trade : How to calculate time for different countries

A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because […]

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Types of Forests: Coniferous forests

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:35:06+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Coniferous forest. Image credit chcentralmich.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Coniferous forests

Coniferous forests consists of evergreen trees which do not shed their leaves at any time of the year.
These are confined to the cool temperature, latitude in belts stretching across northern USA. Southern Canada, Scandinavia, northern Europe […]

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Fresh water fishing outside Malawi

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:34:49+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

A boy fishing in a Lake. Image credit irinnews.org

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Lake fishing outside Malawi

Fresh water lake fishing also takes place in the rift valley lakes of East Africa for example Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, Lake Victoria between Tanzania and Uganda, as well as Lakes […]

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Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:34:41+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Swimming fish. Image credit National Geographic

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Fishing:Solutions for sustaining the world’s fisheries

Increasing fishing disputes have pressured the United Nations into action.
Through the Third United Nations Conference on the law of the Sea of 1974, the UN established a 200 nautical mile zone […]

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Energy resources in Zimbabwe

By Rachel Majaya|2022-09-15T12:34:32+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wood is a popular fuel source in Zimbabwe. Image credit Flickr.com

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Natural Resources: Energy:Energy resources in Zimbabwe

The major sources of Zimbabwe’s electrical energy are coal from Hwange and water at Kariba HEP station.
Wood makes small but significant contributions.
All the oil products used in […]

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January 2023