The problems with agriculture’s productivity, sustainability, and resilience may be partially overcome with the aid of, in addition to agricultural machinery, digitalization. Large-scale adoption and positive effects of digital agriculture have been shown for row crop farms, but data on digital agriculture’s uptake among farmers of livestock and specialized crops is very limited. Adoption is […]
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High moisture, insect damage, fungal/bacterial infections, and rodent damage may cause farmers of Zimbabwe to lose 25-30% of their season’s crop owing to a lack of a suitable storage facility for the grain. This indicates that inadequate post-harvest management may cause a loss of 30% of a yield. The majority of farmers in Zimbabwe rely […]
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The economic backbone of Zimbabwe is agriculture. An average of 15% of Zimbabwe’s GDP, 22.8% of export revenue, and around 23% of all formal employment are contributed by this industry. Prior to 2000, commercial farmers, whose land ownership rights were explicitly outlined in the Land Apportionment Act of 1930, had easier access to finance than […]
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