Seasonal decisions that change what you earn — planting windows, rotations, feeding through the dry season and planning around El Niño.
A cyclone alert about a storm near the Seychelles is doing the rounds on WhatsApp. The storm is real, but it is heading for East Africa, not Zimbabwe. Here's what the official forecasters say, what the alert got wrong, and which cyclones Zimbabwean farmers do need to watch this season.
Every major institution agrees a drier season is coming. They don't agree on everything else, from how far to trust the forecast to how much maize to plant. Here's who is advising what, and where their advice differs.
Zimbabwean field trials show conservation agriculture adds real yield on sandy soils, but the size of the gain depends heavily on rainfall zone, tillage method and whether mulch is used at all.
Veld protein can fall below 3% in the dry months, so communal herds need a deliberate feeding plan built on stored crop residues and legume forage, not just hope for early rains.
Zimbabwe's biggest agricultural technology platform by user numbers isn't an app at all — it runs over basic SMS, and that's exactly why it reached farmers that app-based tools never will.
On-station trials show groundnut-maize rotation can nearly double unfertilised maize yields, but Zimbabwean smallholder data shows the real-world gain is far smaller once labour and market prices are counted.
A 49-year climate and crop-simulation study of Hwedza district found the second dekad of November consistently outperforms the late-November planting most surveyed farmers actually chose.
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