Farai Mabeza, Senior Staff Writer 
ZIMBABWE has adopted a new Chinese agricultural technology, which allows farmers to grow several types of nutritious mushrooms from dried, chopped grasses, without cutting down trees and damaging the environment.
This comes as the country’s funding proposal was approved by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).
The technology, developed by Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China, is environmentally-friendly and helps small-scale farmers to develop a low-cost, commercial-scale mushroom cultivation industry.
UNDESA chief for the national strategies and capacity building branch division for Sustainable Development Goals, Amson Sibanda, told a workshop in Harare this week, on the “Applications of Juncao Technology and its Contribution to the Achievement of Sustainable Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals in Zimbabwe”, that Zimbabwe made its proposal to be part of the project in May this year.
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