1 25 1 https://ir.zou.ac.zw/files/original/75d61dbe375a8e69144c104a75b2d5d7.pdf 6ec0e7ee7cb5ebdc280cad7a4fe54696 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Staff Publications Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MAIZE WAREHOUSING STRATEGIES ADOPTED IN ZIMBABWE, USA, BANGLADESH, ETHIOPIA, AND NIGERIA TO REDUCE MAIZE POST- HARVEST STORAGE LOSSES Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DR EDDINE EDSON MUDYAZHEZHA PROF ROBERT MUSUNDIRE DR MICHAEL MUSANZIKWA Description An account of the resource The focus of this paper was to examine the warehousing strategies adopted in Zimbabwe to reduce maize post-harvest storage losses and compare them to those adopted by the United States of America (USA), Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The aim was to draw valuable lessons for Zimbabwe to reduce maize post-harvest storage losses and ensure food security. Despite many schemes which have resulted in significant increase in maize productivity, the problem of food shortages especially for maize has persisted continually in Zimbabwe. Primary data was collected from 36 Grain Marketing Board of Zimbabwe (GMB) managers, Supervisors, and employees in all its ‘Class 1’ depots, Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development (MLAFWRD) and agricultural experts through in-depth interviews. Quota, purposive and snowball sampling methods were used to select the study participants. The study revealed that there was a huge difference in the maize warehousing strategies used in the USA, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ethiopia and the strategies used in Zimbabwe in terms the responsibility for grain storage, grain storage methods, in- storage grain monitoring, grain post-harvest services, post-harvest grain storage training. The study concluded that Zimbabwe really needs to invest in maize warehousing in order to reduce post-harvest storage losses. The study recommended the participation of the private sector in maize storage in Zimbabwe, investment in hermetic storage, provision of maize drying services at all Grain Marketing Board depots, training of all maize handlers in Zimbabwe on effective maize storage practices and the establishment of post-harvest retail shops in all the 10 provinces in Zimbabwe Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Zimbabwe Journal of Business, Economics and Management Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 machine vision maize materials handling post-harvest losses storage storage technology warehousing