Department of Research and Specialist Services - Home

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

Beans

Trade Regulatory Compliance Support Services and Related Research.

Transfomational Technologies

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

Soil Fertility

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

Livestock Productivity

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

Plant pathology1

This section deals with plant diseases, their diagnosis and management. It also works in collaboration with crop breeding institutes

and seed breeders and seed companies to develop disease tolerant cultivars