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style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=927 valign=top style='width:695.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span class=style30><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Entrepreneurship Zone: 17 May 2021:Meet Chiredzi’s inquisitive chicken breeder</span></b></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=927 valign=top style='width:695.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid 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class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=927 valign=top style='width:695.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=927 rowspan=3 valign=top style='width:695.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:22.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Benson Moyo (61), a smallholder farmer at Bandama village in Ward 4 of Chiredzi district has a peculiar habit.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>He is always curious about cross breeding native chickens with exotic broiler breeds just to find out if this can increase egg output, meat quality and quantity and potential resistance to diseases.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo is not a trained scientist or livestock breeder, but a very inquisitive farmer.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>He has spent hours prying into what crossing local indigenous chickens and exotic broiler chickens could yield.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>This habit or unstructured experiment with breeding yielded some results for him.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>It came with lots of patience and trial and errors.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I am not trained in poultry breeding in any way,” he says. “I am very inquisitive. I learnt a lot from agricultural extension workers about poultry and I decided on my own that I should try out crossing indigenous chickens with “Huku dzechirungu” (broiler chickens).</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I wanted a breed that could give me more eggs, more meat and quality taste as well as a breed that could not be attacked easily by diseases.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo spent several months trying out his breeding innovations and wondered if his claim would prove to be true on his own farm.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I know this is the work reserved for scientists alone, but I wanted to see for myself,” he says. “I said, “let me try it.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo says the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) Enhancing Community Resilience and Sustainability (ECRAS) project trained and supported him to manage and run poultry more competently.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>The US$100 million project is being implemented by CARE lnternational with funding from the European Union, the embassy of Sweden, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) formerly known as DFID.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>It will run until 2022 and aims to contribute an increased capacity of communities to protect development gains in the face of recurrent shocks and stresses enabling them to contribute to the economic development of Zimbabwe.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I’m very grateful about this project and how it helped me to better care for chickens, turkeys, ducks and pigeons,” he says. “It was out of this project that I started this habit — “misikanzwa yekuyedzayedza zvinhu” (habit of trying out things).”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo took a native cockerel and mixed it with some 10 or 12 broiler egg laying chickens in a fowl-run.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>When they lay eggs, he then takes them away and places them on some native hens to hatch chicks.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>He then took the chicks and fed them separately to find out what they could become in terms of egg laying capacity, meat quality and quantity and disease resistance.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>A clear picture emerged on what innovation potential this cross-breed had after his first batch of chickens matured.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I was happy to get a bigger cross breed that could lay more eggs, produce more meat, was resistant to diseases and could easily eat locally made feed,” he says.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“We were trained to make chicken feed using sorghum, millet and other crop residues rich in protein. This helped us a lot to cut costs and increase our poultry yields.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I have not left out native chicken breeding completely. I still do it as most of our buyers also love indigenous chickens.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo and his wife, Mavis, are smallholder farmers who are part of the more than 47 000 beneficiaries of the ZRBF ECRAS project.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Apart from chicken breeding, the farmers have been supported to do fish rearing, goat and sheep breeding as well as cattle rearing.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>They have also been trained to venture into other income generating projects.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I run a small cooking and food outlet which is at a shopping centre close to our village,” says Moyo’s wife. “At this outlet we sell sadza with chicken, goat and fish meat for R50 or US$1. I did a cooking and catering course with ECRAS and I am earning enough money to pay fees for my children.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“I can take care of my children’s needs and do lots of other home improvement work.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Moyo says they sell their chickens for R80 each. Last December, he sold 50 birds worth about R4 000 helping him and his wife to pay school fees, buy clothes and meet other basic needs.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>The couple has three fish ponds with a stock of more than 10 000. They also grow sorghum and millet.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>However, a locust outbreak early this year destroyed all their crops leaving them with nothing.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“When our farmers have other livelihood options such as chicken, goat, fish and cattle projects they can cope with other natural shocks such as drought and locust outbreaks,” says Plaxedes Gweme, an ECRAF programme coordinator under Care International.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“With appropriate training smallholder farmers can adopt chicken and fish farming to get protein food and enhance their livelihoods. All this can enhance their livelihood options to cope and mitigate against natural shocks such as climate change, locust and other pest outbreaks which may destroy their crops.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Local chicken breeds are famed for their marbled meat, full of flavour.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Native breeds can grow naturally and at their own slow pace, surviving disease outbreaks and eating locally available food.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Poultry is rarely the sole means of livelihood for the family but is one of a number of integrated and complementary farming activities contributing to the overall well-being of the household.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>It provides a major income — generating activity from the sale of birds and eggs. Occasional consumption provides a valuable source of protein in the diet.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Keeping poultry makes a substantial contribution to household food security throughout various rural and urban communities.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Small-scale producers are however constrained by poor access to markets, goods and services, they have weak institutions and lack skills, knowledge and appropriate technologies.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>The result is that both production and productivity remain well below potential and losses and wastage can be high.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>With adapted breeds, local feed resources and appropriate vaccines along with proven technologies productivity and income generation can substantially improve.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Agricultural experts fear that practicing cross-breeding unsystematically and without controls can lead to the genetic erosion of indigenous chicken breeds.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“Farmers, yes are inquisitive but this has its own impact on genetic diversity,” says a Harare based agricultural expert. “We can lose the important traits of local chickens. So the government has to come up with less cumbersome and farmer-friendly cross-breeding frameworks to help our farmers improve our yields and meat quality.”</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Farmers like Moyo do breeding in search of unique and important characteristics such as brooding, tolerance of the disease and harsh environment such as the dry and arid conditions found in Chiredzi.</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'> </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=s1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'>“As farmers we also use our minds to try out things for ourselves,” he says. “At times we get good results and times we fail. 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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=31 height=32 src="cid:image004.png@01D74AF5.705858C0" alt="Meet Chiredzi’s inquisitive chicken breeder" v:shapes="Rectangle_x0020_1"><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>A Chiredzi farmer is cross-breeding native chickens with exotic broiler breeds just to find out if this can increase egg output, meat quality and potential resistance to diseases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p3 style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.35pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=wp-caption-text style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:23.4pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.975rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=6 style='width:4.4pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.05pt'><td width=927 valign=top style='width:695.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid white 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:10.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;background:white'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>rAlt. 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