Kasinthula Agricultural Research Station

Kasinthula Agricultural Research Station provides one of the most enabling environments for conducting irrigation and agro-ecology research. It has sufficient land area for conducting field experiments and it is rehabilitating the laboratories for soil and plant analyses. The peak water requirement in October-November is estimated to be 6.57 m3 per second. The water is pumped from the Shire River, 1 km away from the field into the canals from where it moves by gravity to the fields. Drained water is led back into Shire River through open drains via Mthumba stream and the flood band protects the terraces from being washed away. A water reservoir has just been constructed which will be used to store water for sprinkler irrigation on a 6 hectares land. Another 14 ha of land under canal irrigation has just been rehabilitated.