Belarus To Establish “State-of-the-art” Dairy Facility In Zimbabwe
5 May 2019
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BELARUS is set to establish a state-of-the-art dairy facility in Zimbabwe to improve national milk production, as President Mnangagwa’s foreign policy yields more dividends, according to Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Retired Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri.


The President visited some Euroasia nations in January and Minister Shiri said that enabled him to take the opportunity to negotiate the deal with officials in Belarus.


He said during his stay he was impressed by Belarus’ dairy industry and engaged officials from the Eastern Europe country to consider setting-up a relatively similar model in Zimbabwe.


“I also had the opportunity of visiting a state-of-the-art dairy farm and there was only one individual employed to work on the farm, which had over 2 000 dairy cows and everything else was computerised and I hope one day we will have something close to that here in Zimbabwe.


“From there we went to a factory where they produce a whole range of dairy products and after that we persuaded them to come and have a similar set-up here in Zimbabwe for both dairy farm and a dairy processing facility,” Minister Shiri said.


He said a delegation from Belarus recently visited the country on a feasibility study.


“We have since received a delegation going around the country and they promised that they are going to establish such a facility. So we are looking forward to that day that our friends are going to invest in the dairy industry, though we wouldn’t want it to be highly computerised because we need a lot of our people to be employed.

Whilst technology is a good thing, I don’t think we have reached that stage where we will want everything to be done by computer or to be automated…,” said Minister Shiri.State media