Farai Mabeza, Senior Staff Writer 
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) estimates that this year’s winter wheat crop will save the country $300 million in imports.
According to official projections, the harvest will come in at a record 380 000 metric tonnes, 20 000 more metric tonnes than the annual requirement.
“We used to import wheat worth US$300 million per year and that import bill has been very painful to meet. However, with the domestication of our wheat production, the multiplier effect is that from that amount that we used to churn out, we are now providing business to local labour, local input suppliers, and others.
“Not only inputs but the mechanisation part of it as well. We are talking about irrigation, harvesting. That has all been domesticated. All that adds to the country’s GDP,” GMAZ national chairman Tafadzwa Musarara told The Financial Gazette last week.
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