Farmers urged to form export consortium

LOCAL farmers should consider forming an agriculture export market consortium to enable them to penetrate foreign markets and improve their incomes, ZimTrade Bulawayo regional manager Similo Nkala has said.

Nkala said the formation of a farmer export market would help create synergies with the international market, adding that local farmers should participate in regional and international trade fairs to enable the country’s agriculture sector to recover.

“Major export commodities are tobacco, cotton and horticulture and farmers should be targeting agricultural marketing boards in export markets,” Nkala said.

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