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Zimbabwe’s too-productive mango growers look to the sun to boost incomes

Zimbabwe’s too-productive mango growers look to the sun to boost incomes

LUNGO NDHLOVU BEFORE agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Zimbabwe's Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family. This year, an unusually wet rainy season combined with coronavirus restrictions that closed down most of the markets in the country threatened to leave him with a bumper mango harvest - and nobody to sell it to. But a new dried fruit processing centre, which opened in the nearby town of Gokwe in November last year, means Sena can save his mangoes from spoiling and turn them into a…
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