A consignment 1,000 tractors and an assortment of other farming implements worth US$100 million from China is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe in three months’ time.
The implements, which include combine harvesters, irrigation pumps, disc harrows, planters and electricity generators, among others, went onto the sea last week, after undergoing compliance inspection tests from a team of Zimbabwean Government officials.
Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to China, Frederick Shava, said the consignment was the last batch of equipment procured from a US$200 million Chinese government loan.
"The equipment might get home way into the summer farming season but we are sure that it is compliant to our needs because our inspectors who came here recently approved the consignment after carrying out tests. By the end of November or beginning of December, we should see the consignment starting to arrive home but by mid-farming season, the entire consignment should have landed."
The Herald
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November 01, 2007
Zimbabwe imports $100 million farm machinery from China
Categories capacity building, mechanization, Zimbabwe
