Welcome to Our Department

A warm welcome to the official website of the Department of Research and Specialist Services, Zimbabwe. This website provides you with valuable information  on research-based technologies, technical information for advisory services and products for supporting enhanced agricultural productivity and the production of various crops and livestock (with the exception of tobacco, tea, sugarcane, pigs and forestry).Below are our core business functions

Trade Regulatory Support

Beans

Trade Regulatory Compliance Support Services and Related Research.

Transformational Technologies

Transfomational Technologies

Provision of  research-based technologies, technical information for advisory services and products for supporting enhanced agricultural productivity.

 

Crop Productivity

Soil Fertility

Research to support Crop Productivity and Production enhancement and related Specialist Services

Livestock Productivity

Livestock Productivity

Research to support livestock productivity,feed resource improvement and related specialist services

Research products

Research products

The institute avails agricultural inputs and products to farmers (Mashona cattle and goats breeding stock, pasture and forage seeds etc) of high quality to the animal industry. Some of the products and inputs are listed below (see pictures below also)

  • Mashona cattle (Heifers, steers, bulls and cows)
  • Dairy crossbreeds
  • Mashona goats (small east African type)
  • Draught power donkeys
  • Indigenous chickens
  • Fish (eg fingerlings )
  • Pasture and forage seeds (bana grass, leucaena leucocephala, siratro etc)