ABSTRACT
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease), a highly infectious respiratory disease, emerged in 2019 in Wuhan City of Hubei Province, China. The pandemic has ravaged humanity and led to severe implications on the global economy. Zimbabwe, as part of the global community and her commercial agricultural sector in particular, was not spared from the high infectivity of the coronavirus and the associated disastrous impact of the pandemic. The aim of this chapter is to examine the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the commercial agricultural sector of Zimbabwe. The methods used in this chapter involve extraction and analysis of data from publicly available data from the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and Zimbabwe Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS). The data extracted included cumulative cases of COVID-19 and agricultural output statistics prior and during the pandemic. To augment secondary data, a structured questionnaire was administered to prominent commercial famers (identified by the Agricultural Extension Workers) in each of the 61 districts of Zimbabwe, through phone calls or emails, in adherence to the COVID-19 regulations of minimizing close contact to reduce transmission. Apart from the analysis of such data, there is also a critical review of literature from published resources. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.