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SOUTH AFRICA IRRIGATION INSTITUTE ● SUID AFRIKAANSE BESPROEIINGSINSTITUUT
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t’s a great time to enhance your irrigation skills or get
some new ones. Skills in agricultural and landscape
irrigation are in demand. Boost your career with a
SABI Training Course.
For the Landscape irrigation industry
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Introductory landscape irrigation design course
20-24 June
Stellenbosch
4-8 July
Stellenbosch
1-4 August
Stellenbosch
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For the agricultural irrigation industry and designers:
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Basic Principles of Irrigation
19-21 July
Stellenbosch
SABI Advanced Irrigation Design Course 2016
Theme: Subsurface drainage design and installation
19-21 July
Pretoria
23-25 August
Stellenbosch
20-22 September Pietermarizburg
T
he SABI Advanced Irrigation Design Course was introduced to
address the needs of SABI Approved Designers for continuous
professional development. The course is aimed at experienced
designers and is presented every second year on a different topic, which
is selected based on its relevance during the year of presentation.
The topic that has been selected by the SABI Council for the course
in 2016 is sub-surface drainage systems. In South Africa an area
of approximately 16.74m ha is being cultivated and 1.676m ha is
registered for irrigation. It is estimated that 241 630 ha is affected
by rising water tables and salinization, and problems appear to
be expanding as there are many causes of drainage problems
in South Africa.
Planning and design of sub-surface drains has being undertaken
since 1965 by members of the Soil and Irrigation Institute (today known
as the Agricultural Research Council), and the staff of the Directorate
of Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture. Various
techniques are used by the engineering practitioners in the field to
determine the layout spacing, pipe diameter, drain slope, etc, from
various inputs.
The practices, approaches and design techniques for sub-surface
drainage was reviewed, upgraded and compiled recently in a 5 year
research project funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC),
and the newly published report will form the basis of the three day
course to be presented by renowned SABI Fellow and past president
Felix Reinders of the Agricultural Research Council’s Institute for
Agricultural Engineering.
For more information,
view the 2016 SABI Training brochure at
www.sabi.co.za or
phone the SABI office on 021 850 8220
(9am to 4pm Monday to Fridays).
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