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Nigeria Strives to Adopt Experience of Zimbabwe in Agriculture, Report Says
Nigeria Strives to Adopt Experience of Zimbabwe in Agriculture, Report Says
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According to the World Bank, fueled by expansions in agriculture, mining, and remittance-driven services, Zimbabwe has experienced rapid economic growth, with... 06.12.2024, Sputnik Africa
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Nigeria strives to adopt experience of Zimbabwe in agriculture, a Zimbabwean newspaper said.Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakr Shaib Kyari visited Zimbabwe on Thursday and met with the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the report noted. According to the local newspaper, Kyari was very impressed by effective agricultural practises and mechanization strategy in Zimbabwe. Minister Kyari expressed Nigeria's willingness to study Zimbabwe's experience in agricultural mechanization, which has been carried out in cooperation with Belarus. According to the Nigerian official, mechanization could attract Nigerian youth to work in the agricultural sector. Earlier, Belarusian Industry Minister Alexander Rogozhnik said that more than 1,800 tractors and about 80 combine harvesters were delivered to Zimbabwean farms under the agricultural mechanization program by the beginning of 2024, noting that the African country would obtain more than 3,000 units of tractor equipment and 80 combine harvesters in the near future.
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Nigeria Strives to Adopt Experience of Zimbabwe in Agriculture, Report Says
09:45 06.12.2024 (Updated: 10:45 06.12.2024) According to the World Bank, fueled by expansions in agriculture, mining, and remittance-driven services, Zimbabwe has experienced rapid economic growth, with rates of 6.1% in 2022 and 5.3% in 2023.
Nigeria strives to adopt experience of Zimbabwe in agriculture, a Zimbabwean newspaper said.
Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakr Shaib Kyari visited Zimbabwe on Thursday and met with the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the report noted. According to the local newspaper, Kyari was very impressed by effective agricultural practises and mechanization
strategy in Zimbabwe.
"We have seen the trajectory, the efforts of President Mnangagwa, its tremendous and it is something that needs to be commended," the Nigerian minister said during the meeting with his Zimbabwean counterpart Anxious Masuka, as quoted by the media.
Minister Kyari expressed Nigeria's willingness to study Zimbabwe's experience in agricultural mechanization, which has been carried out in cooperation with Belarus. According to the Nigerian official,
mechanization could attract Nigerian youth to work in the agricultural sector.
Earlier, Belarusian Industry Minister Alexander Rogozhnik said that more than 1,800
tractors and about 80 combine harvesters were delivered to Zimbabwean farms under the agricultural mechanization program by the beginning of 2024, noting that the African country would obtain more than 3,000 units of tractor equipment and 80 combine harvesters in the near future.