Agricultural Mechanization in Zimbabwe
CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES
High production costs e.g hiring a tractor for ploughing is 100USD per
hectare.
• Lack of and/or limited availability of suitable medium and long term
finance schemes from commercial banks and the private sector which
support small holder farmers due to instability of the economy.
• Inadequate investment in the rehabilitation and development of irrigation
systems to combat the effect of recurrent droughts by both the
government and the private sector.
Policy inconsistencies from the government.
The products packaged by command agriculture and the more food for
agriculture scheme do no provide a wholesome production chain from
tillage to processing/value addition.
• There is no matching up of the equipment and the farmers capacity/land
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