M. V. Dlamini

University of Eswatini · Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Saline irrigation water is becoming an important water source as fresh water is fast becoming a scarce resource in many areas of the world, including Eswatini, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. A study to test the response of two varieties of spinach (fordhook giant and mustard) to salinity was conducted in a field pot experiment at the Fac...

The Eswatini sugar industry grows fully irrigated sugarcane on 57 420 hectares of land producing 6 197 753 tonnes of cane and 871 301 tonnes of sucrose annually (ESA-Integrated Report, 2019). Poor and inefficient furrow irrigation is still practiced by many growers in particular the poor small holder farmers in the industry. The two treatments were...