THE food security gap is proving to be a major hurdle to meaningful economic progress in Zimbabwe.
In the wake of an El-Nino induced drought, considerable funding from the Government and the private sector is this year being channelled towards importing grain and other food stuffs in a bid to avert starvation.
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has reported that grain importation payments were draining more resources under a $200 million Afreximbank facility.
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