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Getting Zimbabwe’s agriculture moving again: The beckoning of new era

Did you know Zimbabwe was once refereed to as the ‘breadbasket of Africa’?

To improve productivity among smallholder farmers in the country, the following are necessary:

1. Improved access to agricultural inputs,
2. Improved technologies, access to finance, linking smallholder farmers with markets
3. Improving Infrastructure and improving skills for better jobs across the agriculture value chain.

Getting Zimbabwe’s agriculture moving again: The beckoning of new era

‘Our Economic Policy will be predicated on our agriculture which is the mainstay…’ said Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his inaugural speech in November 2017, setting a new tone for agricultural development in the country. While reiterating that the principles that led to land reform …