10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEETVELD»
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The National Agricultural Directory 2011
Due to the sweetness of the grass, sweetveld is easily overgrazed. Dry bushveld
and karoo are examples of sweetveld. What is mixed veld? Mixed veld occurs
between sweetveld and sourveld. It is an intermediate form between the two and
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2
Vegetation of Southern Africa
Sweetveld occurs where the environment favours nutrient assimilation relative to
carbon assimilation; sourveld occurs where carbon assimilation predominates
over nutrient assimilation (Ellery 1992). Plant quality attributes corresponding
with ...
R. M. Cowling, D. M. Richardson, S. M. Pierce,
2004
3
Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s
produced an interlacing of 'sourveld' and 'sweetveld' grazing, determined largely
by the amount of rainfall as well as the topography of the area.11 In the higher-
rainfall areas, the grass tends to be of the sourveld variety. This is a variety
whose ...
4
Biomass Burning and Global Change: Remote sensing, modeling ...
A further analysis of the data showed that the frequency of burning was greater in
sourveld areas than in sweetveld areas, that is, high and low rainfall areas
respectively. The results showed that on average the sourveld areas were
triennially ...
5
African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & ...
Livestock owners in South Africa have, over a long period, distinguished between
sourveld and sweetveld.These are not exact terms but described the general
characteristics of the pasturelands. Sourveld, generally found in coastal districts ...
William Beinart, Karen Brown,
2013
Sweetveld These lower lying areas become waterlogged in summer resulting ir
the growth of sweetveld. Grazers prefer sweetveld, and it is often ovet grazed.
Many species therefore mov onto hillslopes in winter. HABITATS (CONTINUED) ...
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The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the ...
Sweetveld remained nutritious throughout the year but it was very fragile, and it
was believed at the time that an excess caused consumption in cattle.54 The
ideal arrangement was to graze cattle on the sourveld in summer while resting
the ...
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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early ...
Pastoralists learned to identify two types of grasses, sweetveld and sourveld.
Sweetveld grasses were nutritious all year long, even when dry. Sourveld
grasses were nutritious only during early growth, especially after the onset of late
-spring, ...
In these sweetveld regions grasses retain their nutritional qualities for longer
periods of time. The carrying capacity of the sweetveld is less, however, than that
of the sourveld in spring months. Alternatively, some pastoralists may have kept ...
2.2 SWEETVELD, SOURVELD AND MIXED VELD According to Tainton (1981),
the natural veld in South Africa can be divided into three broad veld types in
terms of grazing; namely sweetveld, sourveld and mixed veld (see Figure 2.3).