Robertson - Valley of fruit and wine

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Special anniversary issue, The Water Wheel March/April 201226 Water History White farmers had settled most of the Breede River valley by the beginning of the 18th century, although large-scale development only took place following the cutting of passes through the mountains a century later. The valley was one of the first areas of South Africa where modern irrigation practices were applied – the earliest known irrigation works on the Breede River date back to the 1860s. Robe Rt son i RR igation scheme One of the oldest State-supported irrigation schemes in the country is situated at Robertson, in the Western Cape.

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