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Covid-induced demand for food to spur Seed Co The Zimbabwe Independent
SHAME MAKOSHORI
VICTORIA Falls and Botswana Stock Exchange-listed Seed Co International Limited (SCIL) is to lift full-year revenues to March 2021 by 23% as regional countries, terrified by potentially dire outcomes of a blazing pandemic, beef up food reserves in preparation for the worst, according to a report by analysts at Inter Horizon Securities (IH).
The Covid-19 scourge has returned with a more dangerous second wave in the past few months, forcing African governments to ground economies, and compromising their abilities to produce food to feed the continent’s estimated 1,3 billion citizens.