Die huidige vlaag beurtkrag het \u2019n groot invloed op landbou, en van veeboerderye tot graanlewerings, vrugte\u00adboerderye, veiligheid en veesuipings word deur die krisis geraak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cElektrisiteit is sentraal tot moderne boerderypraktyke en die onlangse toename in beurtkrag het landbou ernstig ontwrig,\u201d s\u00ea Agri SA se hoofdirekteur, Christo van der Rheede, in \u2019n mediaverklaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vrystaatse boere vertel wat die praktiese implikasies van beurtkrag op plase is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns moet daagliks twee groot kragopwekkers laat loop, wat honderdduisende rande se diesel \u2019n maand verbruik,\u201d s\u00ea Pieta Hoffmann, voerkraalbestuurder by Wessels Voerkrale, buite Bothaville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die voerkraal voer sowat 3 000 beeste op \u2019n slag en net die entstof en medisyne wat aangehou word, is enige tyd R250 000 werd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns kan nie bekostig dat dit warm word nie,\u201d s\u00ea Hoffmann, wat die voerkraal vir Gert Wessels bestuur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die winter gebruik Hoffmann sproeiers om die grond klam te hou omdat stof longsiektes by die beeste veroorsaak. Benewens di\u00e9 water suip die beeste nog 200 000 liter water per dag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea voer word daagliks vars gemeng en ook daarvoor moet heeldag krag beskikbaar wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wessels Voerkrale bedryf saam met die voerkraal \u2019n abattoir waar die vleis onmiddellik verkoel moet word en deurentyd op die regte temperatuur gehou moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die ure wat ons nou Eskom-krag het, is net nie genoeg om die boerdery te bedryf nie, s\u00ea Hoffmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea die vaste koste vir die kragpunte op Wessels se plase beloop nagenoeg R40 000, en dit moet steeds betaal word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Douglas Osler, \u2019n boer van Bethlehem, s\u00ea dit kos sowat R4 000 per dag aan brandstof om pakhuise, waar appels en aartappels verpak word, aan die gang te hou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns is bekommerd oor wat in die komende maande by Eskom gaan gebeur, omdat ons in September en Oktober water op die appelboorde sproei om die bloeisels teen ryp te beskerm,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is kritiek belangrik om met di\u00e9 metode die oes vir die volgende seisoen teen koueskade te beskerm en sou daar beurtkrag wees, kan \u2019n vrugteboer sy hele oes verloor, s\u00ea Osler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie kragopwekkers kos ons baie geld en dan moet ons steeds die vaste koste van ons Eskom-lyn betaal,\u201d verduidelik Osler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graansilo\u2019s gaan op die oomblik groot koste aan omdat krag nodig is wanneer graan gelewer word om dit in die silo\u2019s te pomp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Osler s\u00ea hy weet van die silo\u2019s het kragopwekkers aangeskaf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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