Zimbabwe Anticipating 'Bumper Harvest of Maize'

Maize is the staple food for the country. For almost two decades Zimbabwe will produce enough maize to be able to export the grain, said Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa on Friday last week.

"Indicators from the areas I have toured to date suggest that we're herding for a bumper harvest," he said while speaking at a meeting in the country's capital city Harare.

He cited the above-average 2016/17 rainfall amount and command agriculture for the projection. The yields expected are two million seven hundred thousand maize tons. And farmers are expected to earn $USD390.00 per metric ton. However, comments on the national pricing have shown that farmers are dissatisfied and in the near future are more likely to ditch maize farming in favor of cash crop farming which is more profitable.

Source: DW
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