Government will continue to import grain enough to feed our people. Our people, all our people and I am sure no Zimbabwean citizen will starve.
With regard to cropping beginning with the 2016/ 2017 agricultural season, Government will pursue command agriculture in order to ensure food security and maize supply self-sufficiency.
The programme targets producing a minimum of two million metric tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of irrigated land. Prompt payments for grain delivered by farmers to the Grain Marketing Board will continue so as to assist farmers to prepare for the oncoming season.
My Government is fully aware that the economy is operating under very challenging conditions. As such, we recently gazetted Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 which seeks to manage the importation of certain products as a way of supporting and resuscitating the local industry.
The manufacturing sector’s capacity utilisation is expected to remain generally stable on the back of these measures which will be reviewed from time to time.
Already, some notable investments have been made in edible oils, milk powder, drinks and beverages and clothing and footwear. Ehee, takaita yandati Statutory Instrument 64, murawo wakaitwa unokwaniswa kuitwa neHurumende asi uchibvumirwa uripasi pemumwe murawo mukuru unenge wapasiswa neParliament.
Uyu wakaitwa kuti tibatsire nyika yedu, tibatsire vanhu vedu vanorima angave madomasi nezvimwe zvakadaro zvinotengeswa muno munyika.
Zvanga zvaakuora pamusana pekuti kwanga kuine vamwe vakaona kuti zvekuSouth Africa zvakachipa kupfuura zvedu. Zvingachipeka nekuti ivo rand ravo rakadzika pasi saka rino demwa nedollar. Dollar rimwe chete kuSouth Africa ukaenda naro unopiwa maRand anopfuura 10 kana kuti kusvika 15.
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