Zimbabwe

Interesting Facts About Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe's commercial farming sector once provided 400,000 jobs and was a major source of exports and foreign exchange
• Between 2000 and 2016, annual wheat production fell from 250,000 tons to 60,000 tons due to the government's land reform program
• Coffee production, once a prized export commodity, came to a virtual halt after the seizure of white-owned coffee farms in 2000
• Between 2005 and 2011, the number of smallholders practicing conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe increased from 5,000 to more than 150,000
• Conservation agriculture techniques have helped cereal yields rise between 15 and 100 per cent across different regions of Zimbabwe
• The government declared potato a national strategic food security crop in 2012

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