PS|Min of Local Gvt, 2023|Min of Lands, Agric, Fisheries, Water&Rural Dvpt, 2020-23|Director CBZ Holdings, 2019|Manager Seed Co Group-Southern Africa, 2015|
Dear Youths.
Starting farming is like drinking hot tea, it gets easier after the 1st sip. 1st sip is always hot but gets easier, tastier&you enjoy it as you go on. Take the first step&get things done! Never fear paying entry level school fees but learn fromYour mistakes&GROW.
PS
With appropriate & timed support & encouragement, this young generation of farmers will take the Agric sector to the next level.
@terrymap1
is GOALS. Humbled. Thank you for your time.
#ZimYouthCan
Starting this 2021/22 season, Gvt will be distributing 10 fruit tree seedlings per household, targeting 2.3 million households by year 2023. This is Game-Changing & Life-Changing.
Leaving no household, no place behind, as we journey towards V-2030, agriculturally.
The mighty 3 Ps (Production, Productivity and Profitability) key Oilers to the attainment of Vision 2030 Agenda.
Potato harvesting in Bindura, 96 tons per Ha. Colossal!
Zim is projecting over 340 000MT of wheat, against an annual requirement of 360 000MT. This is the highest ever and new record wheat production since.......
Towards flour self sufficiency.
Imagine, having 1.5 million smallholder farmers adopting Conservation Agriculture-the whole country? Surely this should be a GAME CHANGER.
76 year old Gogo Magaret Chiroodza did it in Domboshava.
What about 10 fruit trees per household, targeting 3 million households? Game changing, life changing program loading.....
a) household nutrition
b) surplus for commerce and incomes;
Leaving no household, no place behind, as we journey towards V-2030, agriculturally.
Colossal!
Potato Variety Valor topped over 100 tons per Ha in Bindura, Mash Cetral. 7/10/2021.
Upscaling productivity 'reduces' cost of production per unit output and widens farmers' margins.
Agriculture grew by 34 per cent up from the budgeted 11 per cent in 2021. We are going for GROWTH. We are crossing an Inflection Point, Agriculturally.
#ZimFarmersCan
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#ZimCan
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This is a country that must feed itself. All the good things have been said, we now need to do the right things. 2020/21 diaries.
Inch by inch.
#ZimFarmersCan
Can this holing tool successfully 'retire' the hoe to its so called 'rightful place'- the museum?,:) Pfumvudza-wise?
We may (possibly) consider this tool in the Smallholder Mechanisation programming.
We need more MASTER FARMERS than 'mere' farmers.
Hurudza ngadziwande kudarika varimi.
The MASTER FARMER will deliver the Agricultural Transformation process for us.
Colleagues, thanks for the Congrats messages.
I’m super proud&humbled to receive on behalf of the Sector, the acknowledgement of our collective sterling performances in FY22.
What a befitting indelible legacy we are building for the Sector!
Excited but challenged to do more!
One of Zim's prominent young farmers Aaron Denenga (35) of Denenga Farm, Beatrice, celebrating a BIG achievement; completion of farm dam. Capacity to irrigation over 100Ha all year round.
#ZimYouthsCan
#ClimateProofingZimAgric
Every 10% increase in Agricultural Productivity leads to 7% reduction in Poverty. Improving agricultural productivity is our sure way of achieving Vision 2030 objectives much faster.
Each of the 26 000 villages in Zimbabwe will have one Nutrition/Income Garden by year 2025 under the Presidential Horticulture Progarmme. Nutrition and Incomes are key aspects in the attainment of V2030 objectives. This can be done!
First new Generation Cotton Picker arrived in Zim. 01.03.21.
Modernizing cotton harvesting. Game changer for the Cotton Commercilisation thrust.
@JohnDeere
'We did it in 2016/17& it can be done', is our creed.
Maize harvesting, drying and bulk loading in Mash West. We need 100 such anchor farmers to meet our annual 2.0 million ton requirement. 'Exporting again' certainly is not an 'air castle'. It can be done!
If the rhythm of the drumbeats changes, the dance steps must adapt.
Climate change is a real reality and we have to adapt.
Irrigation development is a TOP priority.
Starting farming is like drinking hot tea, it gets easier after the 1st sip. 1st sip you take is always hot but gets easier, tastier&you enjoy it as you go on. Take the first step&get things done! Do not fear paying entry level school fees but learn from your 1st mistakes&GROW.
In Agric, water is 'ONLY' an ASSET if and when it is used to climate proof the sector, 'not' when it is just flowing. Massive Irrigation Rehab and Development programs loading.....
Tugwi-Mukosi, the largest inland, water body in Zim, started spilling on the 24th of Jan, 2021. Historic development since the commissioning of the dam in 2017. No safety fears AT ALL for communities downstream.
Focus is on finalizing the Irrigation Master Plan.
#GreenBelt
Bindura Country Club renovations by FSG Superfert.
We need all country clubs back and functioning. They are fundamental ports of technical and social capital.
#AnotherAgricExtensionTool
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"If Agriculture fails, everything else will fail", M. S. Swaminathan, Father of India's Green Revolution.
"If we get Agriculture Right, then we are on the Right Track to get everything else Right", JB, 2019.
We gotta get it right.
Congratulations to all ZimWheatFarmers. We have surpassed our 75 000Ha target by 452ha as at 23/06/2022. A record 75 452Ha, which is 101% of our 2022 target is colossal. Attaining flour self-sufficiency 'at all cost'.
In pics: Chikwarakwara Irrigation Scheme crop 25/06/2022.
Lowveld Maize Green Belt Project.
Zim can do two maize crop cycles per year in the lowveld areas. Target is to open and irrigate 100 000 ha by year 2025.
ZimCan.
When I see this, I sleep well! Goodnight!
Congrats to all ZimWheatFarmers for a massive stride, this yr on our journey towards flour self sufficiency.
Street economics: the number 1&smartest export is 'not to import' what you can competitively produce, locally.
Impressive poultry enterprise by a 34 year 'young' farmer in Mash West, Zimbabwe.
Converting the youth bulge (62% of Zimbabwe’s population) into a demographic dividend is key, now more than ever.
#YouthsCan
#ZimFarmersCan
#Going4Growth
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No to drug and substance abuse.
Tour of Irvines Zimbabwe, 5/10/2022, one of the biggest poultry players in Africa. We were inspecting their incredible expansion project. This is Livestock Recovery and Growth Plan in MOTION. The poultry giant has an incredible out-grower and contract farming program.
Imagine!
At this rate, we only need to put 60 000Ha under wheat, average 7 T/Ha, and we are 'bread/flour secure'.
Our national requirement is over 400 000T/year.
Produce more on less land and less other resources, must be the new mantra in
#ZimAgric
Seed, table & processing potato grading & packaging line recently installed by Kukura Seeds in Msasa. The potato industry experienced SHARP growth of over 800% from 52 000MT in 2010 to over 475 000MT in 2020. Such investment is a boost to further entrench 'sharper' GROWTH.