Makoni District in Pictures Date: 04/09/2019 Women and youth members of Chinhenga Goat Breeders look on as consultant Chris Grant demonstrates hoof trimming in ward 9, Chinhenga during a feed formulation and goat management training Date: 28/08/2019 Perceived as a women’s crop, women in Nyamusosa, ward 35 sell their groundnut
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Improving livelihoods through market access – Beulah Sunenyama and Sorghum Seed
Background Mrs. Beulah Sunenyama was born on 28 December 1979. Her parents had originally moved from Mazowe in Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe, to settle in the Ganyungu area of Chisina in 1965.They came to Gokwe looking for better soils where they could grow food and cash crops, settling down to grow
Improving livelihoods through market access – Nothando Dube and Cowpea Seed
Background Mrs Nothando Dube was born on 24 August 1994 in Plumtree in Matabeleland South Province to a farming family. The semi-arid conditions in Plumtree forced her family to look for better farmland and they settled in the Chisina area of Gokwe South District in the early 1990’s. They started
Improving livelihoods through market access – Misheck Pepukai and Quality Protein Maize (QPM)
Background Misheck Pepukai was born on 10 November 1951 in Chirumhanzu in Midlands Province. His family moved to Gokwe in 1964 in search of better and more spacious farmland. At that time, Gokwe was regarded as prime virgin land with a favourable climate. His family was one of several from
Improving livelihoods through market access – Mapu Group and Maize Aggregation
Background In 2012, Welthungerhilfe (WHH) introduced conservation agriculture (CA) to Njelele farmers under the ‘Promote Intensification and Sustainability in Agricultural Production’ (PISAP) programme. CA was promoted to farmers as way of mitigating against droughts, which frequently afflict the region. In 2014 Njelele farmers were introduced to the successor programme, SIMBA,
Improving livelihoods through market access – Ennington Hungwa and Export Flower Seed Production
Background Ennington Hungwa was born on 3 March 1982 in the Mapu area of Njelele 3, Gokwe South. His parents had settled in the area in the late 1950’s from Buhera in Manicaland where semi-arid conditions, coupled with very poor soils made it difficult to support a family. When Ennington
Improving livelihoods through market access – Rudo Chanetsa & sesame production
Background Ms. Rudo Chanetsa was born on 23 April 1976, into a family of eight. Her parents moved from Binga, Matebeleland North to settle in the Nemangwe area of Gokwe South District in the 50’s. Prior to this the family had migrated from Zambia, looking for an area with better
Improving livelihoods through market access – Wellington Sibanda and chilli production
Background Wellington Sibanda was born in 1955 in Fort Rixon in the Makandeni area of Matabeleland South Province. In 1986 his family moved and resettled in the Chematendera area of Nemangwe in Gokwe South District, at a time when inward migration was commonplace due to opportunities in the cotton subsector.
Improving livelihoods through market access – Caritas Dube and African Bird’s Eye Chilli
Background Mrs Caritas Dube is wife to Mr Aramu Dube, a former head of Mudzongwe Primary school in Ward 23 of Chisina. Aramu came to the Chisina area of Gokwe South, Zimbabwe in 1969 as a school teacher. In 1972 he married Caritas and decided to settle in the area.
Making ends meet with market crops: ZWE 1077- A story of Innocent Chifamba
Written by: Lewis Ncube “How can a grown-up man like you grow chilies that are all over our gardens. They are not marketable! You don’t learn, this will leave you worse off,” jeered one of the fellow farmers in Chisina. These words resonated in Innocent’s head. This was a second
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