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Goromonzi class of 1994: Re-imagining Zimbabwe’s agriculture in a post-COVID-19 era

By the Goromonzi class of 1994 WhatsApp group

Covid-19 has disrupted our livelihoods and the systems that support them. While the magnitude of its impacts yet to be fully understood, it is unambiguous that as a country and as Zimbabweans we now need to reflectively re-think, re-imagine and re-build our great nation.

We, the members of the Goromonzi form four class of 1994, undertook a thought experiment in our whatsapp group. We present here thoughts to start a conversation on how we should all work towards building our country starting with our agriculture sector in a post-COVID-19 Zimbabwe.

May 04, 2020 Read more

The importance of agriculture to Zimbabwe

OPINION – The agricultural industry in Zimbabwe is made up of three main components — the large scale commercial and agribusiness sector, the small scale commercial farming sector and the communal farming sector.

Mar 23, 2015 Read more

Dry spell threatens maize output

By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s maize output is under threat from a dry spell that could mean more food shortages in coming months and a disasterous season for the country’s farmers, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told state media that a lack of rain in the past few […]

Jan 20, 2010 Read more

Zim invasions keep investors away

Harare – Zimbabwe’s remaining white farmers say continued farm invasions as well as human and property rights abuses by officials from President Robert Mugabe’s party are keeping international investors away from the poverty-stricken country. Zimbabwe had 4 500 white commercial farmers and agriculture was the cornerstone of the economy before the government’s controversial land seizures […]

Jan 10, 2010 Read more