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GOVERNMENT has announced that vulnerable and food insecure households will have access to grain as it forges towards Vision 2030 of leaving no one behind.
The grain support is a result of positive yields the country has been witnessing after introducing the Sustainable Intensive Conservation Agriculture Model, dubbed Pfumvudza / lntwasa, in the 2020/2021 summer season.
In a joint statement, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister July Moyo and his counterpart Lands Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development Minister Dr Anxious Masuka said households must have done the minimum of three Pfvumvudza/lntwasa plots to access grain.
The ministers noted that since the country-wide introduction of the climate-proof method, Zimbabwe has made remarkable progress in its quest to achieve rural household food security.
The Crops, Livestock and Fisheries Assessment Reports of 2021, 2022 and 2023 also showed yield increases and higher household food production countrywide during the past years.
The reports, the Ministers said, have been corroborated by the ZIMVAC reports of those years indicating a rapid reduction in the percentage of rural households that are food-insecure.
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