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Become part of a growing number of corporate's that together with FABCOS are working to find a profitable balance between:
- The legacy of our past and the demands of a prosperous future
- The incompatible characteristics of the informal and formal
economies of SA - Established traditions and new ways of doing things
- Township, rural and suburban dynamics
Agri-tech
This unit provides FABCOS farmers with access to all equipment necessary to ensure that farmers are able to work on the farm successfully. The equipment ranges from the tractors, sprayers, irrigation pipes, slashers, mowers, fertilizer spreaders, etc. The unit also provides access to different types of manure and animal feed.
1. Manure
FABCOS provides primarily the organic manure/fertilizer and advises on the application thereof in order to improve the health and productivity of soil and plants. The organic nutrients found in the manure increases the abundance of soil organisms by providing organic matter and micronutrients for organisms such as fungi, which aid plants in absorbing nutrients.
The following manure/ fertilizer types are primarily supplied:
- Chicken Manure [With Micro elements]
- Cattle Manure
- Natural Manure
- Compost
- Fermented leaf compost
- Manure mixers and cleaning systems
2. Irrigation
FABCOS supplies equipment and provides advice to farmers on drip and overhead irrigation. This form of advice and equipment assists with:
- No wastage; only optimal use of the water resources
- No theft and vandalism of irrigation equipment
- Very low maintenance on equipment
- Uniform and controlled water distribution
- Less weed growth and more water savings
Support is also provided for the installation of irrigation systems for open fields and green houses based on specification and requirements of members.
