Grade 11

Agricultural Sciences

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Soil

01Soil and waterSoil and water is how water sits in the soil and how irrigation gives a crop a drink without wasting the water or drowning the roots.

Plants

02Plant reproductionPlant reproduction on the farm is how a flower becomes a seed, and how some crops are multiplied without seed.

Animals

03Animal reproductionAnimal reproduction on a farm is the oestrus cycle, mating, pregnancy and birth, managed so young arrive when feed is there.

Ecology

04Agro-ecology and climateClimate and veld decide what a farm can grow. Agro-ecology at this grade is matching the enterprise to the rain, the temperature and the grazing.

Management

05Optimum resource utilisationOptimum resource use means getting a good yield without spending the soil, the water, the veld or the money the farm needs next year.