See the difference between planning what your crops might need and recording what the team actually supplies.
One millimetre over one square metre equals one litre. The estimator applies your weekly crop-water allowance to the selected beds, subtracts your useful-rainfall assumption and allows for irrigation efficiency. The 25 mm starting value is an editable budget example, not a crop prescription.
Useful rainfall is the part the crop can use. Soil moisture, runoff, crop stage and weather affect additional watering. The team checks actual conditions and logs the water supplied. No weather feed or remote irrigation hardware is connected, and forecast rain never creates a charge.
Water currently uses the same provisional uMgungundlovu reference as the chicken pages: R123.51 per kL including a VAT allowance. Confirm the actual source invoice before charging. Labour is R11.50 per 10-minute block including VAT. Shared continuous work is rounded once and its cost divided between plots.
Ask to approve every extra job, or agree a total routine-care cap for the growing cycle. The cap covers authorised routine weeding, watering, crop checks and irrigation water. Machinery and new supplies need separate approval. A cap is not prepaid credit; invoices follow the actual completed work and are payable within seven days.
Water planning reference: FAO irrigation water needs. Supplier and utility guides checked 8 October 2026.
Your quote confirms the actual space, supplies, services and prices. The site does not promise a fixed harvest date or crop yield.
