IH Securities expects crop yields to remain upward trending

FINANCIAL services firm, IH Securities expects crop yields to be upward trending, as the country’s increased rainfall for the current season is also expected for the fast-approaching 2025/26 agricultural period.

Higher crop yields were already expected for the current ending season owing to better rainfall from a La Niña-induced weather phenomenon, a better performance compared to last year’s El Niño-induced drought.

In its new 2025 Zimbabwe Agriculture Sector Report, IH Securities said the La Niña weather pattern had brought more positive rainfalls in the 2024/25 farming season, which saw various sectors such as the dairy, tobacco and food security crop production, posting significant gains.

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