Toppick Investments, a wholly-owned Zimbabwean company, has channeled US$5,5 into irrigation development infrastructure at the highly-integrated Zhovhe Farm. Company managing director Mrs Saliwe Marema told stakeholders during a recent tour that a 7km pipeline has been constructed to boost the new citrus farming project.
Part of the money had been used to import 68,000 orange trees, which are being planted with the number set to be increased in phases up to 277,000 trees. “We are planting 68,000 trees and have so far constructed a 7km water pipeline from Zhovhe Dam to the farm. This will feed our orange orchard and the irrigation pivots on the winter, maize, soya beans sections,” she told chronicle.co.zw. “In addition to the pipeline we have since 2015 acquired 17 irrigation pivots, which have come in handy during our last wheat and maize crops that were planted under the command agriculture model.”
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