Landbou-ingenieurswese op die wen-akker van die een en twintigste eeu

Abstract

The vast field of expertise which is required from the young Agricultural Engineers of today often requires extra training on 'n post graduate level, and post-graduate enrollment have now reached the stage where it is on a par with the average enrollment figure for under-graduates in their four years of study. Agricultural Engineers are now facing a new century where a host of new challenges will require technological skills, vision and insight to meet challenges such as local production, replacement of imorted products, secondary processing, homeland development and increased production in order to overcome economic, technological and other problems in agriculture.