Farming Guides for the Zimbabwean Farmer (Handbooks, Guides, Resources…)

We created this page to provide farmers in Zimbabwe with a central page where they can download PDFs of useful guides and handbooks on their farming. All the guides on this page can be distributed freely. 

Most of the handbooks are provided thanks to ZimAgriHub.

If there’s a guide you know that we don’t have here, and whose license allows free distribution, please contact us on this email hello@pindula.com and we will arrange to have it uploaded for the Pindula Community. We particularly need guides in Zimbabwe’s vernacular languages such as ChiShona and IsiNdebele.

Farming Business

• Farm Management in Zimbabwe (April 2021)
• Mechanisation and Irrigation farmers Handbook

Livestock

• Livestock Production Manual (published 2021)
• Beef Cattle:
  • Beef Cattle Production
  • Kuchengeta Mombe Dzenyama (Shona)
  • Ukuninisa kweNkomo (Ndebele)
• Goat Farming:
  • Goat Production Manual
  • Zvirwe Zvembudzi Manual (Shona)
  • Goat Housing and Welfare
  • Goat Feeds and Feeding Manual
• Pig Farming:
  • Starting a Piggery – Quick Manual
  • Training Manual on Pig Genetics, Breed Selection, and Caring of Breeding Stock
  • Pig Housing and welfare
  • Pig Feeds and Feeding Training
• Chickens:
  • Broiler Management Guide
  • Broiler Feed & Management
  • Management of Chicken Layers
• Fish:
  • Bream Fish Farming Manual
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Crops Guides

• Farm Management Handbook – Crop Production by Agritex (Coffee, Cotton, Sunflower, Oats, Rice, Vegetables etc…)
• Chilli Production 
• Soya Beans Growers Guide
• Sugar Beans Production
• Maize Grower’s Guide
• Kudzidzisana Kurima Bhinzi (Shona)
• Simple Pumpkin Production Guide
• Sweet Potato Production
• Simple Brocolli Farming

Contract Farming

• Irvine’s Zimbabwe Requirements For Broiler Contract Growing