{"id":45984,"date":"2024-04-02T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/trekker-vir-doktorsgraad-20240402-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T06:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:51:53","slug":"trekker-vir-doktorsgraad-20240402-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/eikestadnuus\/trekker-vir-doktorsgraad-20240402-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekker vir doktorsgraad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dit het die verkoop van een van haar pa se twee trekkers en baie harde werk gekos vir dr. 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Sy ken die invloed van klimaatsverandering en uiterste toestande op landbouproduksie maar al te goed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is dus geen verrassing dat hierdie aspirant-agronoom van \u2019n landboustreek in Suid-Afrika se mees noordelike provinsie \u2019n groot deel van haar lewe daaraan sou wy om kostedoeltreffende en groenboerdery-oplossings te vind nie. \u201cVoedselonsekerheid is \u2019n groot uitdaging op die Afrika-vasteland; om dus vorendag te kom met volhoubare maniere om te boer, kan \u2019n manier wees waarop ek \u2019n verskil kan maak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omdat sy in \u2019n boerderygesin grootgeword het, was die bywoning van die Harry Oppenheimer-landbouskool in Mokopane in Limpopo die natuurlike volgende stap vir di\u00e9 ontluikende landbouer. Mabitsela het daarna haar voorgraadse studies en MSc aan die Universiteit van Zoeloeland voltooi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het besluit om vir haar doktorsgraad na \u2019n nuwe provinsie te trek \u2013 van KwaZulu-Natal na die Wes-Kaap \u2013 omdat die US \u201cdie beste landboufakulteit\u201d het. Om van \u2019n kleiner universiteit af te kom waar die meeste studente Zoeloe gepraat het, was nogal \u2019n kultuurskok, erken sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maar Mabitsela, wat haarself as hoogs gemotiveerd en gedissiplineerd beskryf, s\u00ea sy moes by haar nuwe omgewing aanpas. Dit was uitdagend om soveel tyd weg van haar gesin in Limpopo deur te bring, maar haar toesighouer het haar deurgaans ondersteun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die geld van die verkoop van haar pa se trekker was die begin en het dit vir Mabitsela moontlik gemaak om bykomende finansiering te kry \u2013 insluitend \u2019n beurs van die US \u2013 sodat sy op haar studies kon fokus. Sy was vas van plan om akademies suksesvol te wees en het dikwels haar studies bo nuwe vriende gestel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Di\u00e9 opofferings het vrugte afgewerp en sy kan nou met trots na haar landelike gemeenskap terugkeer as dr. Mosima Mabitsela, toegerus om haar kennis oor klimaat-slim boerdery te deel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vir haar PhD het Mabitsela teruggekeer na haar wortels om te bestudeer hoe die inheemse Bambara-grondboon in \u2019n laekoste- klimaatslim-aeroponika-stelsel (waar plante sonder grond gekweek word) en in saagselgroeimediums sou vaar. Sy het saam met haar toesighouer, dr. Ethel Phiri, gewerk om die peulgewas te kweek, wat volgens haar een van haar \u201ctrooskosse\u201d as kind was. Hulle het dit in \u2019n eksperimentele kweekhuisgebaseerde aeroponika-stelsel met behulp van \u2019n generiese Internet van Dinge-platform (IoT) gedoen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy s\u00ea di\u00e9 grondboon kan \u2019n deurslaggewende rol vervul om gemeenskappe se afhanklikheid van omgewingsgevaarlike monogewasse soos koring, rys en mielies te verminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die resultate het getoon dat Bambara-grondbone wat in aeroponika verbou word, beter presteer wat planthoogte en chlorofil-inhoud betref as di\u00e9 wat met \u2019n tradisionele hidroponika-tegniek (saagsels\/drupbesproeiing) verbou word, terwyl die landrasse wat in saagsels gekweek is, meer blare gehad het as di\u00e9 wat in aeroponika verbou is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie aeroponika- en IoT-stelsels word voorgestel as \u2019n oplossing om bestaansboere in landelike gemeenskappe te voorsien van \u2019n alternatiewe en volhoubare metode om onderbenutte gewasse te verbou om hulself en hul gemeenskappe te onderhou,\u201d het Mabitsela in haar bewys-van-konsep, wat verlede jaar in die vaktydskrif Heliyon verskyn het, geskryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waar sy nou as \u2019n landbou-intern by AbInBev werk, is haar raad aan studente wat in agronomie of die wetenskap van gewasproduksie belangstel, dat hulle vir uitdagings gereed moet wees. \u201cWees gereed om te leer, want agronomie is divers. 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