The Farmer Field Day connected farmers with improved technologies, quality inputs and new business opportunities ahead of the next planting season.
The Department of Agriculture has expanded awareness efforts after Goss’s Wilt spread to eight of the country’s nine provinces.
New wheat varieties could help Zimbabwe supply both the quantity and quality needed by the country’s baking industry while cutting import costs.
Better harvests across the region could reduce import demand, although North Africa will still rely on overseas supplies to meet consumption.
The latest move builds on earlier efforts to reduce rising rice stocks and increase sales of locally produced rice.