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A 74-year-old Gwanda-based farmer, Emmanuel Nare, is expecting a good harvest despite a severe drought during the 2023/24 summer cropping season after he put seven hectares under sorghum.
Nare is among the pioneer farmers who have fully embraced the growing of drought-tolerant traditional small grains as part of efforts to ensure food security in the country.
As reported by the <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/74-year-old-gwanda-farmer-reaps-big-sorghum-harvest/">Chronicle</a>, Nare is based at Reata Ranch in Ward 23. The farmer said he learnt that a drought was looming, he sought advice on the varieties of traditional grains to grow and settled for sorghum Sila and SV4 varieties.
Nare has started harvesting his sorghum. He said:
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I have seven hectares under sorghum, three hectares under the SV4 variety and four hectares under the Sila variety.
When I heard that we would experience the El Nino drought I inquired with an Agritex official on what sorghum variety I could grow.
I have always been producing traditional grains, but I then realised that I had to adjust and plant a variety that will do well under these weather conditions and I’m glad that this has paid off.
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Nare urged other farmers to take advice from Agritex officers as this can help them make the right choices.
He said he only had two hectares under maize, but the crop was a total write-off. Nare said he intends to deliver his sorghum to the Grain Marketing Board. He said:
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As farmers, we must ensure that we are highly productive on the land that we have so that we can contribute towards ensuring food and nutrition security.
If we could all take up the advice that we are being given and seek even more knowledge, we can record good yields each year. As farmers, we need to be innovative and seek new solutions.
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The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Obert Jiri, who recently visited the ranch, said:
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We always emphasise that household food security is premised on climate-proofing at the household level. This area is now Region 5B, which is unsuitable for cropping, but we see here a farmer who climate-proofed knowing what to grow in this area and the choice of the variety of the crop.
The farmer is growing traditional grains, which we know will survive dry weather conditions. Even in this El Nino-induced drought, the farmer made good choices.
He respected the agro-ecological region and chose traditional grains, which we prescribe for this particular agro-ecological region.
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Traditional crops such as sorghum, pearl millet and rapoko are slowly becoming popular not only because of climate change but also because people are becoming aware of their high nutritional value and the technology advancement has made it easier to harvest and process small grains.
Zimbabwe is one of the countries in southern Africa hardest hit by El Nino, which has resulted in poor rainfalls and crop failure across the country.
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74-year-old Gwanda Farmer Reaps Big Sorghum Harvest, His Maize Crop A Total Write-off

The government says the country has sufficient maize and small grains stocks that are expected to last until next season.
In a post-Cabinet media briefing on Tuesday, Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Monica Mutsvangwa said the current stock stands at 204 084 metric tonnes of maize and 41 464 metric tonnes (mt) of traditional grains. She said:
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Cabinet wishes to inform the nation that as at 9 July, 2023, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) had in stock a total of 204 084 mt of maize and 41 464 mt of traditional grains.
Millers and stock-feed manufacturers are being allocated 27 000 mt, SILO Foods 16 000 mt per month, and an additional 10 000 mt will be sold to Rwanda.
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Regarding wheat, Mutsvangwa said the country’s current stocks stood at 140 029 mt, which is sufficient to provide eight months’ cover, as the monthly allocation stands at 21 000 mt. She said:
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Cabinet wishes to highlight that 69.8 percent of the country’s wheat is being produced by A1 farmers. The nation is informed that a record 86 466 hectares have been put under wheat compared to 80 882 hectares last year.
The area planted is 14.5 percent above the initial target of 85 000 hectares, and 96 percent of the revised target of 90 000 hectares.
The bulk of the planted wheat or 69.8 percent is by resettled farmers (A1 and A2), while the communal farmers contributed 6.95 percent.
The bulk of the planted wheat is now at the vegetative stage and is in good condition. Quelea bird control activities are underway, including the aerial spraying of nesting points using drones. The required pesticides are also readily available.
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Mutsvangwa also said Cabinet deliberated at length on the importance of paying farmers on time for the delivery of all crops.
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Zimbabwe Has Sufficient Grain Reserves - Govt

The government has urged farmers in drier regions of the country to grow small grains that are more drought-tolerant instead of maize.
Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister, Anxious Masuka, said farmers in regions 4 and 5 should not grow maize unless they are doing it under irrigation.
Masuka assured farmers that they will be allowed to exchange their small grains for maize at their nearest Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot.
He was speaking at the handover of plots to farmers who were displaced when Greenfuel took over the ARDA estate in Chisumbanje, on the back of a joint venture agreement around 2009. Said Masuka:
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We know people like maize sadza. When we say farmers should not grow it unless their conditions permit, we are not saying they should forgo eating maize.
We have come up with a plan, in which farmers will take their sorghum to their nearest GMB (Grain Marketing Board) and for every bucket of sorghum, millet, or rapoko, they will get one bucket and a gallon of maize.
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He added that the government has put in place a system to ensure that the grain swaps are done at every GMB depot in the country. | <a href="https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/new-govt-introduces-grain-swap-facility-as-efforts-to-push-up-small-grains-adoption-intensity">The Sunday Mail</a>

Govt Introduces Grain Swap Facility To Encourage Production Of Small Grains

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