date:Jul 17, 2014
es of maize during the 2012/13 season but better rains and grants of free government seed and fertiliser to rural farmers boosted output this year, according to the agriculture ministry's crop assessment report. The report put Zimbabwe's annual consumption of cereals - maize, sorghum and millett - at 1.42 million tonnes. Total cereal production for the November-April summer farming season was 1.7 million tonnes.
The harvest is good news to many rural Zimbabweans who in January were facing the