Irrigation facilities underutilized

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday said there was underutilization of irrigation facilities in the country, with only 153 000 hectares of land under functional irrigation out of a total of 220 000 hectares of installed irrigation.

Mnangagwa said this at the annual National Agri-business Conference running concurrently with the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show in Harare under the theme Managing Climate Change for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe.