10 DAY FORECAST – HYDRONET PLATFORM

Below is the weather forecast for the upcoming 10 days: 21 November – 01 December 2019

Figure 1- 1: Lubovane area precipitation forecast

Figure 1- 2: Lubovane area precipitation forecast (ensemble)

How Safe is Our Food

If there is one thing we do at least once every day without fail is eating. But have you ever taken a moment to think about the whole production process, who regulates it? and how exactly safe is consuming food that that you just found on the market floor, already packed or on the shelf? Well if you have, you are not the only one, others have had such concerns before so much so that globally there are standards that have been set for food producer to conform to ensure food safety. One amongst others is the Global GAP Standard.

As a follow up on our last article- Fruit Tree Management, in this one we share basic information on the fruit tree management of Mango, Citrus, Litchi, Avocado, Banana and Pawpaw:

• Site selection

For such trees, they require frost free or dry areas maybe except for avocados and banana. They thrive just fine with enough rainfall of about 650mm, in well-drained and aerated loam soil with a pH scale of 6-7. The most ideal areas would be the Low and Middle veld.

Well-after the Cold Chain Summit, NAMBoard has not stopped capacitating farmers for sustainable commercial production. NAMBoard’s Farmer Support Development Unit invited Mr. Vusi Mavuso -Horticulture Specialist from the Ministry of Agriculture to lead training of farmers and the public at large in all the Eswatini regions on fruit tree farming and management. These training series ran from 01 October to 17th October 2019.