DESPITE a plethora of government support programmes for agriculture, Zimbabwe’s budgetary provisions for the sector have been lower than the African Union’s Maputo Declaration target of at least 10 percent of the total annual budget for more than 10 years, a study shows.
While some economic analysts have warned that current levels of support, mostly under Presidential input schemes, are not sustainable, the Agriculture Sector Survey for 2021-2022 shows that since 2009, national budget allocations to agriculture as a share of total budget averaged 6,5 percent.
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