{"id":12474,"date":"2021-05-12T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","slug":"bumper-harvest-could-bring-end-to-zimbabwes-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/05\/12\/bumper-harvest-could-bring-end-to-zimbabwes-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper harvest could bring end to Zimbabwe&#8217;s hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe is expecting its biggest harvest of maize in 20 years, a sign that the country could end its cycle of food deficits due to successive droughts and a chaotic land reform programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Official data shows the country will harvest 2.7 million tonnes of the staple grain in the 2020\/21 summer crop season, the highest yield in 20 years, nearly 200 percent higher than last year and 130 percent above average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe expects to get a surplus of over 820,000 tonnes of cereals this year, the highest yield since the 2000\/01 season when the later president, Robert Mugabe began the violent seizure of white-owned commercial farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His controversial land reforms led to the collapse of Zimbabwe&#8217;s agro-based economy and spawned large-scale food shortages with aid agencies to date still feeding more than half of the country&#8217;s population. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202105110659.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe is expecting its biggest harvest of maize in 20 years, a sign that the country could end its cycle of food deficits due to successive droughts and a chaotic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}