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A satellite image of circular fields characteristic of center pivot irrigation, Kansas Farmland with circular pivot irrigation. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.
White immigration to the Company realm was initially modest, but intensified during the 1900s and early 1910s, particularly south of the Zambezi. The economic slump in the Cape following the Second Boer War motivated many white South Africans to move to Southern Rhodesia, and from about 1907 the company's land settlement programme encouraged more immigrants to stay for good. [5]
Farmland in the United States. The round fields are due to the use of center pivot irrigation. A farm may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation, or a company, may produce one or many types of produce, and can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare [10] to several thousand hectares. [11]
Gokwe Centre is a rural town in the Midlands province in Zimbabwe.The town is usually referred to as "Gokwe Centre" because the larger region is called Gokwe. Gokwe is seen in popular Zimbabwean culture and media as a place that is backwards or undereducated. A lot of memes usually make referenc
Maranda, locally known as "No. 1", is a small business center on the northern edge of Mwenezi (District), Zimbabwe. It is the home town of Dr. Love (Paul Matavire), the former popular musician and Nikita Mangena, Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army military leader during the Second Chimurenga war. It is a center of trade in the district, with ...
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.
Chegutu is the commercial and administrative centre of the surrounding district. Having been established as a mining settlement by gold prospectors, mining for gold and nickel remains important in the area. Its agricultural economy was developed significantly after the Second World War, with maize and cotton becoming major crops. One of ...
Hillside is a residential area in southeast Harare, Zimbabwe. The estimate terrain elevation above sea level is 1506 metres. The estimate terrain elevation above sea level is 1506 metres. Often compared to nearby, Arcadia and Braesaide, it is a historically working class, Coloured (mixed race) area located just southeast of the CBD and the ...