AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Zimbabwe is finalising arrangements to import 230 Large White Landrace and Duroc pigs from South Africa as breeding stock, as part of a US$45 million (about R630 million) EU-funded project to improve the country’s livestock value chain.
Newton Chari, spokesperson of Action Aid, the agency leading the implementation of the pork sector revitalisation project, told journalists at a recent workshop in Bulawayo that Danbreed in South Africa would supply the breeding stock to be distributed to farmers in two provinces in northern Zimbabwe.
“We are expecting the [pigs] in a few weeks in the country. Danbreed will also be providing the necessary after-station services, which is required for the breed.”
In June 2019, the EU launched the Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth Programme under which the project is being run.
