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IRRIGATION FEATURE

and commercial farmers and is currently
business manager and engineer for
Southern Irrigation.

Annemarie van der Westhuizen is
a horticulturist with an MSc (Agric)
Horticulture from the University of Pretoria
(UP). She has extensive knowledge and
experience in agriculture, horticulture
and plant production and has worked
as a researcher for the Department of
Agriculture and UP, including on the
irrigation of agronomical crops with
gypsiferous mine water. While working at
UP, she furthered her studies in irrigation
scheduling and crop water requirements.
Before teaming up with the SABI
IrrigationWise Academy, she was a senior
research officer at SAPPI Forest Research,
details are published in every issue of the as an engineer in the Departments of managing the research tissue culture
SABI magazine and on the SABI website, Agriculture, Water Affairs and Forestry as laboratory.
www.sabi.co.za. The IA accreditation exam a research engineer, and in the fields of
can be written upon request; please email irrigation and drainage at the Agricultural She is the current chairperson of SAGIC,
info@sabi.co.za for more information. Research Council (ARC) from 2012 to 2017. of which SABI is a member. She conducts
He is a SABI approved designer and an irrigation scheduling and landscape
Academy facilitators approved SABI irrigation system evaluator. irrigation courses, and is also responsible
for the SABI IrrigationWise agricultural
Richard van der Merwe and Annemarie van He serves as the external examiner for school’s programme.
der Westhuizen are the facilitators for the the SABI design course and is the external
SABI Academy landscape irrigation courses. moderator for Taung Agricultural College All are welcome to become members of
in North West Province for their course on SABI. For further information on courses
Richard is an agricultural engineer irrigation and drainage. He has presented available, phone 021 850 8220 or email
(University of Natal) and has worked courses on irrigation to UNISA students admin@sabi.co.za. LSA

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