Dairy production remains depressed in Matabeleland as dairy farmers struggle to recover from a decade-long economic crisis that ended in 2008, as well as recurrent droughts.
According to statistics made available to The Financial Gazette's Farming by the Dairy Services for the Matabeleland region, which incorporates Bulawayo, Matabeleland South and Matabeleland North, farmers are producing an average of 500 000 litres of milk per month, less than half of what they used to produce between 2001 and 2002.
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