Tag: SNV
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How USAID emergency drought relief programs saved lives in Masvingo
By Tatenda Chitagu MASVINGO-Nothing seems amiss at Tendai Maronge’s rural homestead in Zimbabwe’s southern province of Masvingo. The neatly painted houses, a thriving orchard, lots of free range chickens, broilers, goats and turkeys all point to a normal rural life. Not before she opens up on her ordeal of being left ‘high and dry’ by…
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Mechanisation: the missing link for Zim smallholder farmers
By Tatenda Chitagu MASVINGO-The ease with which Magret Mapondo, a small-scale farmer from rural Masvingo district, processes her cow-peas harvest, is something to behold. Not so long ago, the 45 year-old farmer from southern Zimbabwe would take several days to thrash, then shell, using her bare hands, and winnow a few sacks of her cow…