Author: agricmania-am

HARARE – Zimbabwe is an agro-based economy. At its peak, the Agriculture sector contributed to over 30% of GDP. This was the situation during our glory days when the country was dubbed the Bread basket of Southern Africa. Unfortunately, the southern African nation has been prone to droughts in the past few years. Albeit reeling from economic effects of the coronavirus, the country’s farmers are also increasingly falling prey to natural disasters, droughts and torrential rain largely due to climate change. The southern African nation’s economy contracted cumulatively by about 11% during 2019-20 owing to the combined effects of the…