President commissions Industrial Fattening Pens and Medicinal Feed Factory

By Elvis Dumba

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned Chinhoyi University of Technology’s (CUT) Industrial Cattle Fattening Pens and Medicinal Feed Factory at the CUT Farm near Chinhoyi.

Officially opening the Industrial Park this Friday afternoon, President Mnangagwa said other universities should imitate CUT which has shown that it is a trailblazing institute in advancing technologies in the food and agriculture value addition.

“I challenge other stakeholders to follow suit and come up with innovative products that focus on creating new products. We now need to focus on education that is reflected in the results of building our country,” he said.

President Mnangagwa said the country is carrying out an agriculture mechanisation and modernisation program targeting 340 000 hectares to achieve the country’s grain needs and avoid grain imports

“We need to have innovators from our education systems and move away from the old education system which was largely academic but graduates who can contribute to the development of the country and this Industrial Park fits well into the country’s industrial needs,” he said.

President Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to continue being patriotic and be united with one accord and continue working on developing the country.

Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Development, Prof Amon Murwira said the country has moved away from taking education as just a tradition but a means of investment in development.

“We have reconfigured our education system to produce employers, not employees and educated industrialists that develop our country as we move towards the vision 2030 objective of achieving an upper middle-income economy,” he said.