Zimbabwe: Grain and Feed Annual Report
Zimbabwe’s corn crop for the 2017/18 MY is estimated at around 2.2 million tons, up more than 300 percent from the 2016/17 MY’s corn crop of 512,000 tons. This major increase in corn production was mainly due to favorable weather conditions and a special program for import substitution, commonly termed as “Command Agriculture”, which was implemented by the Zimbabwean government. For the first time in over a decade, Zimbabwe will be self-sufficient in corn production and will not have to import any corn in the 2017/18 MY. Due to the “Command Agriculture” program, post estimates Zimbabwe’s winter wheat production in the 2017/18 MY at 105,000 tons, which is five times more than the wheat produced in the 2016/17 MY. However, Zimbabwe will still have to import about 200,000 tons of wheat in 2017/18 MY.
