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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The government has urged farmers in drier regions of the country to grow small grains that are more drought-tolerant instead of maize.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Masuka assured farmers that they will be allowed to exchange their small grains for maize at their nearest Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. 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. 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