ZIMBABWE has achieved a milestone in wheat production by harvesting 375 000 tonnes of the cereal this year, the highest ever recorded since wheat growing started in 1966. The attainment of soft wheat self-sufficiency is premised on Government’s agricultural transformation anchored on active private and public sector participation. Over the years, the country could not…
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A former mayor of Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, Ben Manyenyeni is a dejected man. After putting 30 hectares under maize at the beginning of the rainy season, he had expected to pocket about 70,000 U.S. dollars from the projected yield of nine metric tons per hectare, to be sold at…