Farmers urged to form export consortium

Farmers urged to form export consortium
Published: 11 February 2014

Local farmers should consider forming an agriculture export market consortium to enable them to penetrate foreign markets and improve their incomes, ZimTrade Bulawayo regional manager Similo Nkala has said.

Nkala said the formation of a farmer export market would help create synergies with the international market, adding that local farmers should participate in regional and international trade fairs to enable the country's agriculture sector to recover.

Nkala said farmers should also consider joining TradeMap Zimbabwe an online database of global trade flows and trade barriers which would go a long way in helping them to penetrate new export markets.

The world's largest database of trade statistics, COMTRADE, provides detailed export and import profiles and trends for over 5 300 products in over 200 countries with specific values and quantities, growth rates, market share and market access information which Nkala said was critical for local farmers to join if they were to market their produce effectively.
- newsday
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