Zimbabwe: Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes Making an Impact On Food Production allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THE development of viable small-scale irrigation systems is critical to increasing productivity, sustaining livelihoods, creating jobs and wealth as well as improving incomes at household levels. Improving agriculture and enhancing productivity through small-holder irrigation is a key strategy in eradicating poverty and improving livelihoods of rural communities, especially in Manicaland where the bulk of the…
THEFT of cables and control systems from centre-pivot irrigation infrastructure has become a serious headache for irrigation farmers in Manicaland as they are now accruing huge costs through loss of production, damage to crops and replacing the stolen components. Cable theft is a well-organised crime whose impact on businesses, the community and the economy at…