The aim was to produce a land suitability map which shows new agro-ecological zones in Masvingo province.
The current agro-ecological regions, developed in the 1960s are now ineffective and outdated mainly due to
climate change, technological change has brought new methods and tools that have a more realistic and practical
classification of regions according to their agricultural potential. The input parameters, which are climatic features,
soil characteristics, physiographic features and water body availability, were populated into a GIS database for
processing. The different parameter maps were then weighted and combined to produce a land suitability map of
Masvingo.