Harare, (New Ziana) – Farmers who benefitted from the Presidential Inputs
Scheme during the 2024/2025 summer cropping season are expected to contribute 10
kilograms of maize that will be channeled to vulnerable members of the community
across the country.
Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister Dr Anxious Masuka
said this at his interaction with Ministers of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in
Harare on Friday.
“This move is critical for the country’s food security and the stability of our economy. As a
Ministry, we must play our part in ensuring that the maize is mobilized from all those who
were beneficiaries of the Pfumvudza/Intwasa program this past summer cropping season.
“We must have a special section that indicates the ward-by-ward collections and this will
then be communicated to Ministers of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution,” he said.
The Presidential Inputs Scheme was introduced to sustain and enhance food security
especially at the household level and under the Second Republic, it is part of the
Rural Development 8.0 model anchored on increased rural development and eradication of
poverty.
Dr Masuka said there was also need to harmonise databases of
organisations and individuals who need land and those who have already benefitted.
“The Zimbabwe Land Commission, the war veterans and other organisations have
their databases on land and these should be harmonised so that we can create a clear path on
the way forward. We want to have a flawless land management administration system,” he said.
Meanwhile, Dr Masuka said buoyed by targeted Government interventions that include the
Presidential Inputs Schemes, the expansion of irrigated land and private sector contract
farming arrangements, Zimbabwe is on course to achieve cereal tonnage that exceeds the
country’s requirement.
“The Government’ has always been committed to ensure that Zimbabwe remains wheat self-
sufficient and reduce reliance on imports. Alongside Ethiopia, we are the continent’s two top
wheat-producing nations,” he said.
The country’s second round of Crop, Livestock, and Fisheries Assessment indicated a cereal
production of 2.9 million metric tons, that exceeded the nation’s requirement of 2.4 to 2.6
million metric tons.
Findings of that assessment will inform Zimbabwe’s future agricultural policies and
interventions, supporting the country’s food security and economic growth.
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