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Youths in agriculture have promised to keep alive the legacy and continue to good work started by the late national hero and Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Cde Perrance Shiri.
The late Retired Air Chief Marshall Shiri died recently and was buried at the National Heroes Acre. He was involved, among many other programmes, with rolling out the Pfumvudza project for farmers.
The Pfumvudza project has been complimenting the government other program of Command Agriculture which aims to boost the country’s food security.
Youth coordinator in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Nikros Kajengo said despite the fact that the void left by Cde Shiri will be difficult to fill, they are ready to continue with his legacy of sustainable development.
“As Youth Desk, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement, we have a big assignment from the late Cde Shiri.
“The duty is to contribute towards addressing national economic issues in particular food insecurity, nutrition insecurity and poverty issues .
Mr Kajengo said they will see to it that the Pfumvudza programme, rolled out by the late Minister Shiri, comes to fruition.
“We want to continue running the government program, Pfumvudza, whose thrust is to intensify efforts to boost agricultural production through conservation agriculture methods.
“This will guarantee food self-sufficiency and commercialise smallholder agriculture,” he said.
In this climate change, Mr Kajengo, said Pfumvudza was a game changer.
“Under the Pfumvudza concept, communal farmers will now be required to practise conservation agriculture, a concept also known as Pfumvudza for them to benefit under the Presidential Inputs Scheme as Government moves in to boost agriculture productivity and ensure food self-sufficiency and surplus.
“Pfumvudza is a concept that is aimed at climate proofing agriculture by adopting conservation farming techniques and involves the utilisation of small pieces of land and applying the correct agronomic practices for higher returns,” he said.
The programme is being rolled out to all farmers.
The concept will be applied to maize, traditional grains, and soya beans will also commercialise smallholder agriculture.
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