EU Donates US$13m for Smallholder Farmers

The European Union (EU) announced a US$13 million fund to help thousands of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers, in a bid to revive the Southern African country's agriculture sector after years of decline.

The EU's food security coordinator in Zimbabwe, Pierre-Luc Vanhaeverbeke, says that 80 000 households would benefit from the US$13 million donation through training and farming inputs such as seed and fertiliser.

"We strongly feel that the stabilisation and eventual resuscitation of agriculture is crucial to the overall economic development of Zimbabwe," says Vanhaeverbeke.

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