eBusiness Weekly
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro
The 2022 Agricultural Show that kicks off today will see Zimbabwe and international businesses being part of the annual exhibition as they seek to strike deals among the farming stateholders.
Dr Andrew Matibiri, the Zimbabwe Agriculture Society chief executive officer noted; “There are several business conferences including the dinner on climate change, annual national agribusiness conference, mining and agriculture interface and the mining and agriculture breakfast meeting, including a Zimbabwe-Botswana Forum.”
According to Dr Matibiri, the first three days are strictly for business with the public being allowed to attend the exhibition from Thursday to Saturday.
“The official opening will be done on a Friday and a suitable Head of State will open the show,” said Dr Matibiri without revealing the guest of honour citing professional reasons.
“This year we are going to have a full normal show with fireworks and the usual conferences like the agricultural conference, mining and agriculture interface conference.”
ZAS’ mandate is to promote agriculture and facilitate rural agricultural development in Zimbabwe. Dr Matibiri said this year’s theme was fundamentally essential for the successful and revolutionary growth of agriculture and consequently the country’s economy at large.
The agriculture sector is one of Zimbabwe’s major economic sectors and the Government has continued to roll out a number of initiatives to boost productivity in the sector.
Such initiatives include the National Enhanced Agricultural Production Scheme, Presidential climate proofed and Presidential rural horticulture and livestock programmes.
The agriculture sector has already hit the initial 2025 target of becoming a US$8,2 billion industry after the industry grew by 36,2 percent to US$8,19 billion in 2021.
