How clever kraaling can restore bare patches

Short-duration, low-input overnight kraaling can work wonders for rehabilitating degraded sites or fertilising fallow or abandoned cropland in moist grasslands. Short-duration kraaling can lead to increased grass cover on such bare patches, but, surprisingly, it can lead to more bare ground if kraaling is done where the grass cover is intact.

This is according to research carried out on communal farms in the southern reaches of the Drakensburg in the Matatiele Local Municipality in the Eastern