Source: Cereal production milestone in pipeline | The Herald (Local News) Precious Manomano-Herald Reporter The country is expecting a bumper harvest in terms of cereals from increased hectarage planted during the good rains of the 2022-23 summer cropping season, refilling the grain reserves while for the third straight year, there will be no imports of maize and traditional grains.
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At the same time Zimbabwe has reached self-sufficiency in wheat following last year’s record harvest, and this year farmers have already made plans to grow more, starting the creation of reserves of wheat as well as meeting local demand. Speaking on behalf of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa during the 4th Zimbabwe Agriculture media awards held in Harare recently, the Deputy Minister Kindness Paradza urged the media fraternity to continue sharpening their pens and influence positive improvements in the coverage of agriculture-related programmes. He said the country was celebrating the record-breaking wheat tonnage harvested in the 2021-2022 agricultural season, the biggest harvest since wheat farming started in 1966. The estimated maize production is 2,3 million tonnes, a 58 percent increase on the 1,5 million tonnes produced in the 2021-2022 season. Traditional grains production is estimated at 280 966 tonnes, 45 percent more than 194 ...
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