Zimbabwe is home to three indigenous cattle breeds, namely the Nkone, Tuli and Mashona, each having traits that have been refined over the ages to flourish in the African environment. Zimbabwe's indigenous breeds have over decades evolved into efficient beef producers, and the Nkone particularly so.
“Although Nkone numbers and breeders declined dramatically during the past few decades to a low that was considered close to extinction, numbers are again increasing in Zimbabwe. The decline is ascribed mainly to land reform and commercial farmers losing their land,” says George Hulme, a Nkone breeder and chairperson of the Nkone Cattle Breeders’ Society of Zimbabwe, who jointly runs his Pungeni stud with
