Venue: Zimbabwe Agricultural Show Grounds
Date: 28-30 May 2025
The 2nd Edition of the Agricultural Research and Extension Symposium 2025 was held in Harare (the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society Exhibition Conference Halls) from the 28th – 30th of May 2025 under the theme: Transformative Agricultural Technologies Accelerating the Attainment of Vision 2030. Under the Ministry of Lands Agriculture Fisheries Water and Rural Development, the Agricultural Research, Innovation and Specialist Services Directorate in collaboration Agricultural research Council (ARC) and Zimbabwe Agricultural Society invited researchers, academia and Extension and the private sector to participate in the 2nd edition of the Agriculture research and Extension Symposium which had various thematic areas that included: crops breeding/agronomy/seed systems/soil fertility management/analytical services; plant health and IPM; livestock nutrition/ animal breeding/ fisheries and aquacultureresources; animal health and diagnostics; agroecology/botany/germplasm conservation; GIS and
remote sensing/climate modelling; farming systems/ extension methodologies/ feedback mechanisms;research, extension and education policy environment; and irrigation technologies/ soil and water conservation and farm mechanisation. The symposium highlighted the potential of innovations like AIdriven apps, solar-powered micro-irrigation, and conservation agriculture to unlock sustainable agricultural practices.
