May 18, 2024
TOUTED as southern Africa’s major winter wheat producer once upon a time, Zimbabwe has fallen on hard times. The lack of activity in traditional winter wheat farming belts as the season beckons is a sure sign that all is not well. Farmers have failed to make adequate preparations…
THE country’s milling industry is in crisis, with players reporting an uncertain outlook as maize and wheat output decrease to alarming levels, raising doubts over the ability of local millers to meet demand.…
TABITHA Mutenga, a journalist with The Financial Gazette posed the following question to me recently: Is Zimbabwe no longer a wheat growing nation as we now rely more on imports than growing the crop? Quite frankly, Zimbabwe does not have a comparative advantage in the growing of the…