Moses Zakhele Sithole

University of Mpumalanga | UMP · Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences

The study investigated the relationship between smallholder farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics and their choice to implement formal water management systems in the context of agricultural output in Numbi, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Numbi is a farming community situated in the Mbombela Local Municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Mun...

Ecosystems play a huge role in support of human life, this is evident through their provision of food, fiber, water and fuel. However, these potentials are reduced through human activities, which comes with the lack of conservation of our forests. Deforestation is one of the major issues as far as sustainable development is concerned. Deforestation...

This poster was presented and published on the NEMISA Digital Skills Colloquium in 2020, it's on Digital Agriculture. It exposes the potentials and challenges in the implementation of digital Agriculture towards Sustainable Agriculture and sustainable development.

Abstract: Agriculture plays an important role for income generation, economic growth, and employment for majority of people. Agricultural production has become the very means of alleviating poverty. In pursuit to meet the growing demand for food to sustain the ever-growing population, the need to salvage farming and farm productions from extreme cl...

Deforestation is induced by human activities, cascading into associated cost and economic benefits. The concepts, dimensions and, deforestation caused by deliberate human activities were extensively examined. The chapter also highlighted the rationale for deforestation, environmental dimension to deforestation and contributions of forestry and fore...

ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to determine the influence of tillage management strategies on weed control, assess the impact of weed in crop production; and examine farmers’ adoption behaviour in the use of modern weed control methods. The study employed a survey of a randomized sample of 160 farmers in Mangweni in Mpumalanga Province. L...