NAMPO 2017
Impressions of a mega-show
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those aspects. If one is If you couldn!t make it to Bothaville
interested in livestock
then one must forego last month, here!s a small sample of
anything to do with
some of the stuff you missed
crops. If planting is
(eastern)
one's thing, then one won't
Gauteng,
make it to the cattle section.
and when it's
Or one can decide to cover
busy like it
all the outside exhibits, which
was this year
will leave too little time to
merely
parking one's
car and
buying a
ticket can
take up to an
hour.
What about
Taking over from the Chinese? A small Malaysian
spending two tractor being marketed in South Africa as a Zar-Trac
days at
show from the nature of the
Nampo to see it all properly?
exhibitors and their wares.
Well, if you want overnight
For example, southern Africa's
accommodation in the area
romance with Chinese
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tractors seems to be ended.
next year because every B&B When the
one is commuting to the
walk through the (generally
and hotel for miles around is
Greenfields
venue from Gauteng. So one packed) exhibition halls. Or
full at Nampo time, housing
group
has to decide what one wants one can concentrate on the
the hundreds of workers
represented
to see and focus solely on
halls, with their bewildering
manning the exhibition
Foton in
array of
stands.
South Africa
products (from Having made those points, a
there was
Persian carpets trip to Nampo each year is a
always a big
and furniture to must for anybody interested
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clothing and
in, or involved in, agriculture
computers) and big and small, as much to see
Right: Proof
positive that
miss out on
new things as to press the
we’re no longer
seeing the
flesh with established
a manufacturing
mammoth
nation ... forester’s
suppliers and customers.
tractors outside. And every year one can
leaf rakes
proudly
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discern different trends at the
imported from
Left: firefighting unit with built-in tank. Right:
hour drive from
China
Paramedic’s seat and stretcher for sportsfields.
ompared to last year's
fairly muted affair, this
year's Nampo Harvest
Day show outside Bothaville
in the Free State was both
more vibrant and filled with
more visitors and exhibitors.
And, in truth, the show has
now become too big to take
in all in one day, certainly if
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