Gwebi Agricultural College is hosting this year's edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Colleges Sports Gala from the 2nd to the 6th of March. The annual premier sports extravaganza is expected to attract eight agricultural colleges and at least 560 sports persons who will compete for honours in the various sporting disciplines.
The event also brings together working partners and organizations that work with the youth in issues of sexual and reproductive health and is used as platform to network and interact. Sporting is known to improve an individual's physical fitness and sharpen the mental faculties.
In the history of the tournament, Gwebi set a record to become the first hosting college to win the tournament in 2008 after safely defending the title when they were crowned champions the previous year. History is known to repeat itself but the scenario will be put to test as Gwebi College seeks yet again to defend the title they won in 2014.
Gwebi College is situated 27 km north-west of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, at an altitude of 1450 metres, in open rolling country. The College Farm, 1600 hectares in extent and in Natural Region II, is bisected by the Harare-Chinhoyi highway and has a variety of difficult soils, ranging from the clays derived from banded ironstone to those of grey-yellow Tatagura type.
The African Conservation tillage Network works with Gwebi Agricultural College as a Centre of excellence to mitigate some of the challenges faced in Agriculture through the Conservation Agriculture practice. Using the model farmer approach,Some of these challenges which include low adoption of CA practices, limited knowledge and skills to implement CA, limited capacity of farmer organisations to implement CA, poor technical standards and best practices are addressed. Other Centres of Excellence include ARI-Uyole in Tanzania, KARI Njoro in Kenya, and Yei CTC in South Sudan.