Major cooking oil and margarine maker Pure Oil Industries has contracted 5 000 smallholder farmers in four provinces to produce sunflower during the present summer cropping season to assure itself of local supplies of a critical raw material and replace imports.
The move is also expected to create employment, empower smallholder farmers and enable them to participate in the agriculture value chain as well as boost supplies of Pure Oil’s premium branded sunflower cooking oil as it pays local farmers to produce what it needs. Pure Oil also makes margarine.https://www.herald.co.zw/5-000-farmers-contracted-to-grow-sunflower/?fbclid=IwAR3Q1hMc26hVPwo7PgaksAilNhETshJMbTlZUcaY45GL3w2gyJ8dozOJp-Q
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