SA Irrigation = SA Besproeiing

Many employers, and not just the owners of agricultural concerns, do not understand how the basic conditions of employment affects themselves and their employees. Here, we shall attempt to demystify the most frequently questioned issues in the basic conditions of employment by employers and their employees: remuneration, leave and termination of employment.

Beaufort West, a Karoo town situated on the north-south transport link between Johannesburg and Cape Town, is home to a hydroponics company that is doing its bit to alleviate the town's widespread poverty. Fifty-one per cent of the town's citizens are unemployed and 13 000 of its 34 000 inhabitants get by on social grants. Considerable efforts from both inside and outside the town have been expended in an effort to stimulate socioeconomic growth and job creation.

The concept of cultivating plants in environmentally controlled areas has its roots in Roman times. Further on down the line, in the thirteenth century, the world saw the construction of the first modern greenhouse in Italy. However, it is the French botanist, Jules Charles, who is often credited with building the first practical modern greenhouse.