Irrigation farmers in the semi-arid Northern Cape are still waiting on Eskom to accede to their request for lower load-shedding levels as their stressed crops continue to suffer from heat.
A large number of farmers in the province rely heavily on irrigation, pumping water from the Vaal and Orange rivers. The frequent bouts of load-shedding — sometimes as high as nine-and-a-half hours a day — severely limits how much water can be pumped...
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