Online Reporter
Edgar Vhera
Specialist Writer – Agribusiness
THE gross value of agriculture production is set to rise 53 percent to US$15 billion by 2031 from US$10,3 billion in 2025 as a result of considerable growth in various sub-sectors.
This is contained in the country’s new agriculture roadmap, the Agriculture Food Systems and Rural Transformation Strategy 2: 2026-30 (AFSRTS 2), which replaces AFSRTS 1, which ends this year.
Under AFSRTS 2, Zimbabwe seeks to be a food, feed, bio-oils and bio-fuels secure, become an agro-industrial hub by 2030.
According to the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, the 53 percent growth will be anchored by growth in food crop, horticulture, fisheries, milk, indigenous chicken and broiler meat production and growth in the cattle herd.
