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Zimbabwe spends US$800m annually on grain imports

“Government is not only looking at what we are doing in order to get food for those who are food deficient, but also start looking at what will happen during the season."

  ZIMBABWE is spending US$800 million annually on grain imports, deputy Agriculture minister Vangelis Haritatos has said. Speaking in the Senate recently, Haritatos said the country adopted the Pfumvudza programme as a measure to address the problems of low productivity. “Because of the low productivity and low production, the country has become a perennial net…

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