The time may have come for us to couple our Agricultural sector to global demand. This requires a proper reading and forecasting of global markets, so our crop mix and repertoire of agricultural activities timeously responds to requirements of the world market.
We already do that in respect of tobacco. That discipline must now broaden to cover all areas of agricultural activity.
I am glad the long dormant Cold Storage Company is now set to resume its part in the whole agricultural matrix. With that recovery must be resurrection of our leather and allied industry for which we were famed previously.
Above all, our grand plans to grow Lucerne grass, and to produce stockfeed competitively, must pick pace. This will allow us to increase and improve our National Herd, including in communal areas where the largest herd is found.
Let me conclude by assuring our farmers that Government will do all it can to ensure our agriculture is both modernised and made more rewarding.
Never has both the national and global environment been so favourable to the farmer and the sector. Let us make the best of both, all the time searching for durable solutions which take our Nation forward towards Vision 2030.
By President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Sunday Mail
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