MET minder as 4% water oor wat uit die Kougadam onttrek kan word, was \u2019n 80%-beperking wat ingestel is op die waterkwota vir boere in die Gamtoosvallei nie juis \u2019n skok nie. <\/p>\n
Hoewel die hewige beperking vir die nuwe waterjaar, wat op 1 Julie begin het, steeds \u2019n uiters moeilike tyd voorspel, aanvaar die boere wat geraak word daar is nie veel meer wat die departement van waterwese kan toeken nie, s\u00ea Rienette Colesky, uitvoerende hoof van die Gamtoos-besproeiingsraad.<\/p>\n
Die watervlak van die Kougadam, wat ook water aan die Kouga-munisipaliteit en aan die Nelson Mandelabaai-metro voorsien, het gister op minder as 7% gestaan. Water kan tot op \u2019n vlak van 3,1% uitgelaat word.<\/p>\n
Benewens die swaar beperking op die landbouverbruikers is \u2019n 70%-beperking op die metro se onttrekking uit die Loeriedam (ook water wat uit die Kougadam invloei) geplaas. Die dorpe Hankey en Patensie in die Kouga-munisipaliteit is met 30% beperk.<\/p>\n
Terwyl die metro watertoevoer met waterbronne van die westelike opgaardamme en die Nooitgedacht-waterskema se water uit die Gariepdam kan aanvul, is die landbouverbruikers van die Gamtoosvallei geheel en al van die Kougadam afhanklik.<\/p>\n
Colesky s\u00ea met die tempo waarin die Kougadam se water verminder het, het die landbouverbruikers nie verwag dat hulle \u2019n volle waterkwota sal ontvang nie en hulle het sover moontlik voorsiening hiervoor gemaak.<\/p>\n
In die geval van die sitrusbedryf verwag Colesky dat boere op hul ho\u00ebr-inkomstebome sal fokus, terwyl die ouer bome minder aandag sal kry. Die melkboere in die Mondplaas-gebied sal na verwagting sukkel om met slegs \u2019n 20%-waterkwota hul weiding genoeg water te kan gee.<\/p>\n
Sommige boere wat kontantgewasse het, wat verpakte groente behels, het reeds hul produkte elders geplant waar die Kougadam nie die hoofwaterbron is nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie kontantgewasse word elders geplant met die doel om hul kontrakte met supermarkte te behou,\u201d s\u00ea Colesky. \u201cAl maak die landbouverbruikers nie noodwendig \u2019n wins hierdeur nie, is die hoofdoel dat hulle die kontantgewasse kan lewer en hul kontrakte behou tot wanneer dit weer beter gaan.\u201d <\/p>\n
Skaars twee jaar gelede het die landbouverbruikers ook slegs 20% van hul waterkwota gekry. Die waterkwota is egter later aangepas tot 40% toe goeie re\u00ebn die Kougadam se watervlak tot 55% opgestoot het.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit is die vyfde jaar van droogte, maar ons glo dit gaan iewers weer re\u00ebn. <\/p>\n
\u201cOns het hoop vir die jaar wat voorl\u00ea.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns as die besproeiingsraad sal die skema so goed moontlik bestuur om die boere die grootste voordeel van die bietjie water te gee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Retief Odendaal, DA-woordvoerder oor landbou-ontwikkeling en landelike hervorming, het sy kommer oor die nuwe waterkwotas uitgespreek omdat die verminderde water \u2019n impak op die duisende hektaar sitrusboorde kan h\u00ea en tot werkverliese kan lei.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit sal \u2019n harde slag vir die landbousektor wees wat van die nasionale tesourie vanjaar \u2019n afname van na raming 4,4% kan ervaar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hy s\u00ea die distrik het van die land se grootste sitrusprodusente, wat \u2019n groot bydrae tot die provinsie se bruto binnelandse produk (BBP) lewer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndien hul boorde verlore gaan, sal dit jare, selfs dekades, neem om te herstel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odendaal het reeds \u2019n versoek aan Oscar Mabuyane, Oos-Kaapse premier, gerig, asook aan Nomakhosazana Meth, Oos-Kaapse LUR vir landbou-ontwikkeling en landelike hervorming, om onmiddellik noodfinansiering beskikbaar te stel om die boere en die streek met infrastruktuur vir die onttrekking van grondwater te ondersteun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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