As a commercial irrigator you have different roles when it comes to water management. On-farm, you run a business enterprise, which means that you manage water to improve irrigation efficiency and water productivity. In the same role, you also manage water as a critical resource whose availability and quality are major risks. On-scheme, you have

In South Africa, as in the rest of the world, agriculture is the largest user of freshwater resources, surface and groundwater included. For South Africa, agricultural use amounts to about 60% of the total use. Irrigated agriculture is therefore increasingly under pressure to produce more food with less, or the same amount of, water. This