Commodities for commercialisation of smallholder agriculture in low potential areas of Zimbabwe

Sponsored by GIZ. Experts were selected from both the private and NGO sectors to give details on crop and livestock enterprises with scope for providing smallholders with opportunities to increase their incomes. Organisations presenting papers included Delta Corporation (sorghum/cassava outgrower programme), Agriseeds (smallholder contract seed production of cowpeas, groundnuts, sorghum and sunnhemp), Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (smallholder tobacco production), Zimbabwe Farmers' Union (contract cotton production), Department of Irrigation (commodities grown at a smallholder schemes), Makera Cattle Company (smallholder cattle breeding programme), ICRISAT (goat production) and Technoserve (poultry outgrower schemes).