FAO winds up €6m projects

THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has wound up a ₧6 million four-year irrigation rehabilitation programme in Matabeleland South and Manicaland provinces, with the government urging beneficiaries to ensure sustainability of the projects.

The projects directly benefitted over 2 000 households with at least 1 000 hectares of smallholder irrigation land put under use while farmers were equipped with, among other things, management skills for sustainability.

FAO assistant representative for Zimbabwe, David Mfote said plot-holders had also been drilled in scheme governance to see them through successful commercial farming.

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