{"id":1350,"date":"2026-11-05T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kzndarddev.kznsshf.gov.za\/?page_id=1350"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:05:24","slug":"about-the-agricultural-crop-research-services-directorate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/?page_id=1350","title":{"rendered":"About the Agricultural Crop Research Services Directorate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About the Agricultural Crop Research Services Directorate<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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The Directorate comprises of three Sub-Directorates, namely:<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>

(i) Crop Science Research Services<\/p>

(ii) Analytical Services<\/p>

(iii) Farming Systems Research<\/p>

Their respective purposes are:<\/p>

  • To undertake Crop production Research Services<\/li>
  • To undertake Farming System Research<\/li>
  • To provide Analytical Services, Soil Fertility and Biochemistry Research, as well as Biometric Statistical Services<\/li><\/ul>

    The customers\/clients of research are farmers, advisors and extension officers, industry, NGO\u2019s universities, ARC, companies, commodity organizations e.g. Potato SA, Grain SA etc., and organized agriculture. \u00a0<\/p>

    ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES<\/strong><\/p>

    Analytical Services Laboratories consist of 5 laboratories:<\/p>

    • Soil Fertility Laboratory, where soil samples are analysed to ascertain their fertility status and from these results, Lime and Fertilizer recommendations are generated for over 80 different crop types.<\/li>
    • Plant Nutrition Laboratory, where plant tissue is analysed for the nutrient status, which is a helpful management tool, assisting in highlighting any nutrient toxicities or deficiencies in the crop.<\/li>
    • The Feed Laboratory is used to ascertain the quality of feed and forages for livestock feeding.<\/li>
    • The Salinity Laboratory analyses for soil texture, soil salinity, lime and water quality.<\/li>
    • The Plant Health Laboratory is a diagnostic laboratory to identify crop diseases and offer solutions as to how to treat the disease identified.<\/li><\/ul>

      The critical role of Analytical Services Laboratories is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>

      To provide an accurate, efficient, scientifically based analytical service with recommendations and diagnostic advice emanating from research norms, in support of improved agriculture in the Province.<\/p>

      Annual Operational Plan<\/strong><\/p>

      The outputs in terms of research and technology development and transfer as well as support from the Analytical Services as a Sub-Directorate are documented in detail in the 2018\/19 Annual Operational Plan for the Directorate.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      About the Agricultural Crop Research Services Directorate The Directorate comprises of three Sub-Directorates, namely: (i) Crop Science Research Services (ii) Analytical Services (iii) Farming Systems Research Their respective purposes are: To undertake Crop production Research Services To undertake Farming System Research To provide Analytical Services, Soil Fertility and Biochemistry Research, as well as Biometric Statistical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9082,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzndard.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}