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by Regina Pasipanodya

ZIMBABWE has a huge potential for sugar-cane production, a senior official has said, adding the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam provides the industry with new water resources that should increase land under irrigated sugarcane by between 17 000 and 25 000 hectares.
“This opportunity has the potential to increase cane production by a further 1,7 and 2,5 million tonnes for processing into sugar for export, ethanol for fuel blending or industrial applications for stock feed production and electricity generation,” Zimbabwe Sugar Association chairman Mr. Muchadeyi Masunda said.
Mr. Masunda was addressing a conference on sugar and ethanol in Harare last week.
The US$300 million Tokwe-Mukosi Dam is the largest inland dam and was completed in 2016 with a capacity of 1,8 billion cubic metres, it is the country’s’ largest inland dam.