Planting, Propagating, & Promoting Pecans in South Africa

摘要

Almost an hour's drive outside of Kimberley, South Africa, the Vaalharts Storage Weir diverts water from the Vaal River and feeds it into the Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme. Here marks the start of South Africa's entire pecan industry. Without the Valhaarts Irrigation Scheme and this dam, the South African pecan industry wouldn't exist as we currently know it."It is what we have. There isn't anything else we can use," said Hardus du Toit, the Senior Technical Officer of the South African Pecan Nut Producers' Association, as we looked out at the Vaalharts Dam on a bright morning in mid-November 2019. "That damsupplies 37,000 hectares (about 91,428 acres) of irrigation with water. All the towns get their drinking water out of this. Each town has its own purification system. And where the canals end, we pump the water from Vryburg [-a town about an hour northof the Vaalharts Storage Weir.]"