Premium prices attract small farmers back to coffee growing in Zimbabwe
08 July 2019 - 19:33
Honde Vally — David Muganyura smells the coffee cherries on the slopes of his plot and breaks into a smile, as he chats to workers who are harvesting a crop he expects to be his biggest to date.
A long-time Zimbabwean coffee grower, Muganyura almost gave up on the crop when prices slumped to as low as US20c a pound at the turn of the millennium, and foreign buyers took flight after land seizures drove out more than 120 white commercial coffee farmers under the banner of post-colonial reform...
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