Zimbabwe, Sorghum, 2019

Zimbabwe's estimated postharvest losses for sorghum in 2019 was 5,051 tonnes or 12.6% which had an estimated value of more than 1 million US dollar.

As for nutrition 18 billion kcal were lost, which is the equivalent of more than 21 thousand people, in terms of annual nutritional dietary energy requirements. In the value chain, the majority of the loss is estimated to be happening at Harvesting/field drying, Threshing and Shelling, and then Household-level storage. Highest estimated postharvest maize losses in tonnes were estimated to occur in Mashonaland Central.

Production quantity and estimated postharvest losses

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Value chain

Production quantity and estimated postharvest losses in % per value chain step. Please note that once loss has occurred at harvesting, the percentage loss in the next stage is a percentage of what remained, not of the original amount.

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Nutrition

Number of people whose annual dietary requirements (in terms of energy, kcal) could have been met by consuming the sorghum that was lost postharvest, and what % of the focal group of the population this number equates to.

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