The State of Agriculture in Zimbabwe

The State of Agriculture in Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Situation

Source: The State of Agriculture in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is not an easy country to farm. Much of the country is arid to semi-arid, over half the country has poor soils, rains start about November and finish in March – just 5 months. Eddie Cross Droughts are frequent and in winter temperatures can drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius. In 1896 when the first foreign settlers came here, they anticipated to find gold and diamonds like South Africa, but fo…

The State of Agriculture in Zimbabwe

Eddie Cross Droughts are frequent and in winter temperatures can drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius. In 1896 when the first foreign settlers came here, they anticipated to find gold and diamonds like South Africa, but found little evidence of both and turned to farming. They carved out of virgin bushveld several thousand farms ranging from a couple of hundred hectares to half a million. They experimented with crops eventually settling down with mai…