The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development (MoAMID), issued national guidelines to govern the provision of support to smallholder farmers in the form of agricultural inputs and extension for the 2011/12 summer cropping season. These sought to minimize direct input distribution and eliminate the provision of free inputs to farmers. The guidelines proposed that inputs be provided using rural input/output markets and that farmers contribute 10 percent to the cost of the inputs they receive.
