Success Stories » January 2012

AgriTrade Moves Fresh Vegetables to Urban Areas

Posted by IRD HQ

LOWER GWERU, Zimbabwe – Samuel Msipa, 59, is a popular figure at fruit and vegetable markets in and around Gweru in Midlands Province. Vendors at Kudzanayi and Kombayi markets know him as “the man who brings fresh tomatoes, carrots, potatoes and other vegetables” and supplies the Gweru urbanites. A simple walk with him across the breadth of the markets is punctuated by s... more

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