1Land on which plants providing nutritious grazing grow.
〈南非〉甜牧草草原，提供高营养牧草的土地
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The 50% and 33% limits are based on field experience that in sourveld the maximum frequency of burning should not be more than biennial and in sweetveld triennial.
The area is regarded as prime grazing veld for cattle, forming part of the superior ‘smaldeel’ swathe of sweetveld.
It is always associated with sweetveld grasses - those grasses which remain palatable through the dry season - and provides much nitrogen to the soil through its root nodules and litterfall.
This is mainly sweetveld which makes grazing a pleasure Thisfarm is a mere 3 hours drive from Johannesburg.
The Pan and the surrounding sweetveld savannah plains are home to more than 114 mammal and some 340 bird species.
This is the renowned sweetveld region, purchased by Liebigs (later Lemco) at the turn of the 20th century.
The distribution of sweetveld and sourveld in South Africa's grassland biome in relation to environmental factors Request Article
It is a beautiful farm, mostly flat and sweetveld with your usual acacia trees and other species.
Vegetation is typical Eastern Cape sweetveld and bush with the landscape and kloofs providing the ideal habitat for rare cycads, sneezewoods, yellowwoods, knobthorns and a variety of game.
The veld type is typical mountainous sweetveld with spekboom, wild plum, gwarri, wild olive, karee, grassland and riverine thorn thickets being the predominant vegetation types.
The grasses and shrubs which thrive in these areas are generally highly palatable and of high nutritive value, hence the name sweetveld applied to the natural vegetation.
The return loop between Lower Sabie and Tshokwane, which traverses the sweetveld plains, proffers one of Kruger Park's best game driving areas.
The game farm is located in the sweetveld area north of Ellisras.
The sweetveld is found mainly in the eastern plains, whereas the sourveld is limited to the western regions.
1.1Nutritious vegetation.
高营养的植被
Origin
Probably partly translating Dutch zoeteveld; compare with sourveld.