Zimbabwe: Food
(asked on 28th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of trends in the level of food production in Zimbabwe.
This question was answered on 5th March 2019
According to Government of Zimbabwe figures, the Zimbabwean average national cereal production for 2013-17 was 1,356,000 tonnes. In 2017 2,535,000 tonnes were produced, in an unusually good agricultural season. In 2018, this dropped to 1,937,000 tonnes. The current season has been negatively affected by economic crisis and poor rainfall. A significant shortfall in cereal requirements is forecast.