Zimbabwe Farmers' Union seeks $200m in hort exports by 2020
This will also help Zimbabwe reclaim its position as Africa's second biggest horticulture producer after Kenya. Horticulture is Zimbabwe's fourth largest agriculture export earner at seven percent.
ZFU executive director, Mr Paul Zakariya, said his organisation was organising farmers into groups and commodity associations to improve service delivery and access to domestic and regional markets.
One of the groups under ZFU is the Zimbabwe National Horticulture Producers' Association, which has structures from ward to national level that facilitate trainings to enhance competitiveness and market linkages.
'We hope to surpass the 1999 peak export earnings of $199 million so that the sector regains its long standing second position on agriculture export earnings," said Mr Zakariya.
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