Presidential Rural Horticulture Transformation Plan to boost rural incomes in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Published Oct 14, 2021
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The Presidential Rural Horticulture Transformation Plan will be rolled out in the forthcoming summer cropping season to boost rural incomes, improve family nutrition and open the way for local processing of foods. Government is set to roll out the scheme that will see 2,3 million households benefitting from fruit production and village nutrition gardens. The orchards and gardens should, by 2030, be adding an average of US$2 000 a year to each rural family.
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Under the programme, each targeted household will be given 10 trees of each fruit variety, depending on suitability of the fruit tree varieties for their region. Government is looking at six varieties: passion fruit, pecan nut, guava, mango, macadamia and apple. The horticulture recovery plan is part of Government initiatives under the Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation Strategy (2020-2025) to transform agriculture from a US$5,2 billion to a US$8,2 billion sector, contributing 20 percent of GDP by 2025 in line with the vision of making Zimbabwe an upper middle income economy by 2030. Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Permanent Secretary Dr John Basera has confirmed that progress is being made and presently the major activity was setting the seedling base. Zimbabwe Farmers Union director Mr Paul Zakariya yesterday said the fact that the programme was targeting the smallholder community meant it would boost nutrition. "We have always been talking ...
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