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Herald Reporter
Ahead of the Independence Day celebrations slated for Gokwe Nembudziya 100 village business units (VBUs) are being established in the vast district.
These VBUs are part of the Government deliberate efforts to ensure food security from the village level in line with President Mnangagwa’s dictum of leaving no one and no place behind.
Special Presidential Advisor Dr Paul Tungwarara is spearheading the setting up of the VBUs.
“We are leaving no place behind, we have deployed rigs to Gokwe to start the drilling of boreholes. Our aim is that every village in Gokwe gets a borehole that will be solarised. The programme also extends to schools to enable them to embark on their own income, generating programmes,” said Dr Tungwarara.
Each business unit is designed to be self-sufficient and includes a solar-powered borehole, provided under the Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme, two 10 000-litre water tanks, four community water taps, one-hectare fenced-drip horticultural garden (size may vary based on borehole yield), and two fish ponds (100 cubic meters or 100 square metres).
Additionally, the units may include feeding and water troughs for livestock, tailored to the specific needs of the area.
The goal is to establish 35 000 units nationwide.
The average village requires about 33 metric tonnes of grain per year. If a business unit is well-managed, it can produce approximately seven tonnes of grain in one cycle, covering nearly a fifth of the village’s grain needs. With two production cycles, this can meet about a third of the requirement.
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