Tsvangirai continues crop assessment tour
by Own Correspondent Saturday 01 May 2010
HARARE – Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday continued his countrywide crop assessment programme touring Mashonaland Central province, at time when the country is facing a 200 000 metric tonne maize deficit.
The tour saw the PM visiting Guruve South, Chiweshe, Mount Darwin, Rushinga, Madziwa and Shamva.
Mashonaland Central is the seventh province that the Tsvangirai has visited after going to Matabeleland North and South, Midlands, Masvingo, Manicaland and Mashonaland West provinces in the past seven weeks.
According to a joint report by the government and United Nations agencies, Zimbabwe has this year recorded a three percent increase in maize production compared to last year, although the country will still need to import 200 000 tonnes to mitigate the shortfall.
“After going through all the provinces, the Prime Minister will compile and present a report on appropriate intervention mechanisms for adoption by Cabinet,” James Maridadi, the PM’s spokesman said yesterday.
Apart from being responsible for government policy formulation, coordination and implementation, the PM also chairs the Cabinet committee on aid coordination which has authority over drought mitigation and social safety
nets, Maridadi said.
The PM was accompanied by Minister of State Gorden Moyo, secretary Ian Makone and Members of Parliament from the respective constituencies.
Once a net food exporter Zimbabwe has faced food shortages since President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme that he launched in 2000 and which has seen agricultural output plummet because the government failed to provide blacks resettled on former white farms with inputs and skills training to maintain production.
Poor performance in the mainstay agricultural sector has also had far reaching consequences as hundreds of thousands of people have lost jobs.
A unity government formed in February after a power sharing agreement between Mugabe and Tsvangirai in September 2008 is pushing to revive the economy although it has to date failed to ensure law and order in the
mainstay agricultural sector where mobs of supporters of Mugabe’s ZANU PF party continue harassing the few remaining white commercial farmers. – ZimOnline Tsvangirai continues crop assessment tourby Own Correspondent Saturday 01 May 2010
HARARE – Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday continued his countrywide crop assessment programme touring Mashonaland Central province, at time when the country is facing a 200 000 metric tonne maize deficit.
The tour saw the PM visiting Guruve South, Chiweshe, Mount Darwin, Rushinga, Madziwa and Shamva.
Mashonaland Central is the seventh province that the Tsvangirai has visited after going to Matabeleland North and South, Midlands, Masvingo, Manicaland and Mashonaland West provinces in the past seven weeks.
According to a joint report by the government and United Nations agencies, Zimbabwe has this year recorded a three percent increase in maize production compared to last year, although the country will still need to import 200 000 tonnes to mitigate the shortfall.
“After going through all the provinces, the Prime Minister will compile and present a report on appropriate intervention mechanisms for adoption by Cabinet,” James Maridadi, the PM’s spokesman said yesterday.
Apart from being responsible for government policy formulation, coordination and implementation, the PM also chairs the Cabinet committee on aid coordination which has authority over drought mitigation and social safety
nets, Maridadi said.
The PM was accompanied by Minister of State Gorden Moyo, secretary Ian Makone and Members of Parliament from the respective constituencies.
Once a net food exporter Zimbabwe has faced food shortages since President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme that he launched in 2000 and which has seen agricultural output plummet because the government failed to provide blacks resettled on former white farms with inputs and skills training to maintain production.
Poor performance in the mainstay agricultural sector has also had far reaching consequences as hundreds of thousands of people have lost jobs.
A unity government formed in February after a power sharing agreement between Mugabe and Tsvangirai in September 2008 is pushing to revive the economy although it has to date failed to ensure law and order in the
mainstay agricultural sector where mobs of supporters of Mugabe’s ZANU PF party continue harassing the few remaining white commercial farmers. – ZimOnline