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Sunflowers and dried mangoes are the key to surviving climate change in rural Zimbabwe Africanews 1 hour ago
One afternoon in Mupindi Village, Gokwe South, more than 400 kilometres from Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, a smallholder farmer called Bernard Mupindi is pruning the rough, hairy triangular leaves that grow around the stem of a sunflower.
The blooming yellow sunflowers in this 3.5-hectare piece of land are less than a month away from harvest. Mupindi still recalls growing sunflowers for his family to eat around a decade ago, but he had no idea how quickly that would change. © Farai Shawn Matiashe Small holder farmer, Savirios Chingura inspects his almost ready for harvest sorghum in his field in Gokwe South, Zimbabwe
Sunflowers and dried mangoes are the key to surviving climate change in rural Zimbabwe
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Mango growers look to the sun to boost incomes - February 15, 2021
Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in 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 product that can be shipped to buyers around the country and