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Enhancing yield per hectare remains the central focus this summer season as Zimbabwe intensifies efforts toward higher productivity and efficiency. #FoodSecurity Everywhere Everyday

PRESS STATEMENT ON THE REVIEW OF BUSINESS REGULATIONS FOR LIVESTOCK AND DAIRY FARMING AND THE STOCKFEED SUB-SECTORS Government has launched sweeping Ease of Doing Business reforms in the livestock, dairy & stockfeed sectors that has seen 20+ permits & levies scrapped or reduced, compliance costs slashed,investment encouraged and jobs & rural livelihoods boosted. These reforms align with HE President @edmnangagwa’s vision under the mantra: “Zimbabwe is Open for Business.” KEY REFORMS INTRODUCED Registration Fees • AMA farm reg. fee: now $1 flat • Small/medium farmers: no certificate fee • Dairy processor reg.: cut from $350 to $50 (once-off) • Feed mfg. reg.: now $20 flat fee Livestock Movement Permits • Local authority duplicate permits: Abolished • Clearance fees: cut from $10 per animal → $5 per herd Import/Export Permits • Livestock genetics import: $100 → $20 • Dairy exports: $900 → $10 • Meat export: $500 → $100 Health & Safety Compliance • Health certificate: $300 → $100 • Abattoir setup fee: $350 → $50 • Veterinary reg.: $600 → $100 • Food handler health certs scrapped EMA Fees • Effluent disposal: $800 → $100 Water & Environment •ZINWA abstraction fees abolished •Groundwater permit: $10/farm •EIA Licence: cut from 1.5% → 0.05% of project value (capped at $100,000) Other Removals • AMA livestock levy • Biosafety permit • CBCA certificate These changes will: •Lower costs for farmers & SMEs •Encourage formalisation •Attract investment •Boost productivity •Support rural jobs & development These reforms will extend to other sectors, including: •Transport •Tourism •Retail & more. Full breakdown of the reforms is available in the official press statement by Hon. Prof. @MthuliNcube, Minister of Finance, attached below.

Florida's citrus industry has collapsed from 244 million boxes of oranges in 1997-98 to just 12 million projected for 2024-25—a devastating 95% decline driven by citrus greening disease. This catastrophe resulted from decades of industrial farming that abandoned soil-building practices for chemical-intensive methods, creating weakened trees vulnerable to disease. As Brazil's citrus industry now follows the same path with 44% of trees already infected, Florida's empty groves serve as both a warning about industrial agriculture's risks and proof that regenerative farming can still restore even severely degraded systems.

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His Excellency the President, Dr ED Mnangagwa, made a fundamental observation at PreCabe during a tour of his farm by Central Committee members. He stressed that farmers should focus on how many tonnes of cereal they produce per hectare under a crop!! Focus on PRODUCTIVITY, in other words. A few weeks ago, I made the same point in a thread relating to national maize output. We expect 2,4/5 million tonnes on 1,8m hectares we put under grain. If you do your figures, you realize we are doing barely 1,3 tonnes per hectare. In the Region, the average output per hectare is upwards of 4 to 6 tonnes per hectare!!!

80% of fresh produce deliveries to the airport in the last 3-4 days rejected by plant inspectors cost the industry millions of dollars, credibility and trust Frustrating

One of the big mistakes that farmers make is never to taste nutrients in their crops like tomatoes and they just follow some random PDF program and pump nitrates into their tomatoes. Hie Nitrates reduce shelf life of the fruit. Don’t always load Ammonium Nitrate in crops like tomatoes and peppers, you will have a lot of returns from shops. One of my tomatoes is now on 73 days sitting on the counter and it’s still intact. Because we managed our nitrates