Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri said Zambia has offered a deal to supply Zimbabwe with maize annually.
Shiri made the remarks while speaking during the launch of the traditional seeds input programme at Marymount in Rushinga District last week. He said:
Zambia said we should sign an agreement with them for them to produce maize for us annually and we should not forget that we used to feed Zambia.
So it is not possible for us to be fed by other nations when we have the capacity to produce our own food.
Zimbabwe has an acute shortage of the staple grain and recently imported 17 000 tonnes of maize from Tanzania.
The United Nations has also launched an appeal to the international community to raise funds to provide food for roughly half of Zimbabwe’s population.
Having failed to regulate prices how do you expect farmers to buy inputs and afford labour and tilage. 10 kg presidential seed is totally nothing
You chased away our white farmers for what?
Now we are a laughing stock, an empty bread basket.
Disasterous land grabbing will never bear any fruits not in the next 50 – 100 yrs
Zanu destroyed a beautiful country pregnant with so much potential for selfish political reasons.
If I were Zambia I would triple the price of maize sales the Zimbabwean zanu government ,bunch of crooks
Is the Minister not ashamed to even announce such sad news??
If we have the capacity, why are we begging the world for food aid?
This is not due to weather vagaries, but due to clueless leadership since Uhuru attaining.