has become the biggest threat to the already ailing agricultural economy. This is according some farmers in North West where they say that the latest power outages have put immense pressure on irrigation reliant and energy intensive farms. This includes a large section of crop andMost of the farmers have become desperate for power to run their daily farming activities. Those who are farming in crop using irrigation system to water their plants and intensive farming relies mainly on electricity.
“This tobacco is at a critical stage, it needs irrigation on time and now we are stopped. We got three generators on the farm but that just not enough to support tobacco ovens… I do not have extra generators. Those three generators uses six thousand rand a day on diesel on load shedding,so its on top of our electricity bill of ninety thousand rand to hundred thousand rand a month.”
“On the diesel is about twelve litres per hour, what they cost us. The problem is the risk we got if there is something wrong with the generators I got a total loss of hundred and seventy four thousands of chickens at once because there is nothing I can do,” says Boerderay.
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