Our Mission
Afmine’s mission is to provide the best solutions for agricultural needs, whilst keeping a sustained and healthy relationship between supplier and farmer.
We believe in providing our clients with an honest and trustworthy product, walking alongside the farmer to help them gain knowledge and experience along the way.
Service
Quality
Knowledge
Our vision is to maintain a high-quality product so that the client doesn’t have to question it, staying consistent from year to year. We stand by our product and we stand by our clients.
About Gypsum
Gypsum is Nature’s very own plant super food. It increases and maintains plant health by providing them with large amounts of Calcium and Sulphur: two elements essential to plant growth. Gypsum is extracted from our open-air mine in Yzerfontein using a unique gypsum/water seperation process only.
Some differnet crystaline forms of gypsum
Needle Like
Fine Powder
Rose Crystals
Slightly coarser, like a conglomerate (cluster)
Registered as the best natural there is in South Africa
Natural gypsum is calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4.2H2O) – soluble in water, which releases calcium (Ca) and sulfur (S), absorbed by the plants and crops as needed. Gypsum is used worldwide for ground control, correction and plant nutrition.
The product breaks up clay soils for water intake en drainage, equally removing oiliness out of sandy soils. The soil pH is managed by gypsum and the necessary calcium and sulfate is added.
Natural gypsum gets formed over thousands of years, mostly in dips (pans) in the earth (later “enfolded” through soil). These depressions usually contain more than gypsum alone, including nitrate, chloride and many other elements. These other elements are washed out over years and then the sulfate ions, binded with calcium, leaving gypsum last. Because of the conditions of the soil (for eg. temperature, rain season etc.).
What Our Customer Say About Us
Denny Mushrooms
Very friendly, knowledgeable, and efficient team which provides support and feedback timeously.
Ceres Landboudienste
100% happy with your service. Very efficient, I can’t even recall any problem in the past.
Nitrophoska
If we contact Angela or Marius with an issue, they always help as quick as they can. They are also very accommodating and friendly.
