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Kurima (farming) zvinoreva mabasa anoitwa kuchengeta mhuka dzakapfuyiwa uye kudyara nekukohwa mbesa. Kurima kunosanganisira kukama mukaka wemhuka dzakapfuyiwa, kucheka vhudzi remhuka dzakadai sehwayi; kusarura mukono unoberekesa nzvari; kusarura mbeu dzakanaka dzokudyara zvichingodaro.

Munyika zhinji dzeAfrica kurima ndihwo hushangazhi hune vanhu vakanyanya kuwanda vanoshandamo.

MuZimbabwe vanhu vazhinji vari kumaruwa vanoita mabasa ekurima. Vazhinji vanopfuya mhuka dzinosanganisira mombe; mbudzi; hwayi; huku; njiva; hanga; nguruve nedzimwewo. Kuminda vanodyara mbeu dzinosanganisira; chibage; donje; fodya; nzungu; nyimo; mbambaira nezvimwewo.

Madzinde anorimwa muvhu achizokohwewa kuti adyiwe kana kushandiswa nevanhu anonzi mbesa - crop of any kind. Panodyarurwa fodya kana muriwo, madzinde acho madiki ari kudyarurwa anonzi mbesanwa kana kuti nhondo.

• Kurima (to till, to plough) apa kureva kutimba negejo.
• Ndimo (Agriculture; ploughing season; fields).
• Kuparura kana kutsivira (to make ridges) zvinoreva kuvamba kurima gombo kugadzirira kudyara mbambaira.
• Kusevura, kuparura, kana kuseza (to clear land for planting a garden). Museza izita remhuri.
• Nhondo dzefodya dzinosimwa pamihomba. Apa kusima kunoreva kudyara chinhu changa chamera uchisima paunoda kuti chizokurira.
• Kusimika kana kudzimika (to plant firmly).
• Kukuta (to break up clods) apa zvichireva kupwanya mavhinga.
• Kukavira (to plant seeds which are not broadcast e.g. beans and maize) kutaura kudyara mbeu nenzira yekukandira mukakomba uchifushira nevhu rinokavirwa mukakomba makare - iyi naira yasiyana nekukusha.
• Gwerekwete kana magwerekwete (Good farmer) kureva murimi anogona kurima.
• Mudzongwa (1. Planting in rainy season, 2. Crop sown in rainy season). Vanodzongera mudzongwa pamunhuruka: they plough the rainy-season crops into the ground at the first rains.
• Kubvukuta (cultivate and sow at same time).
• Kuchacha (clear old lands). Zvichida ndipo panobva zita rokuti Machacha?

• Anokuti rima ati udye. He who tells you to plough wants you to eat.

• MaXhosa vanoti umfuyi (n. farmer) kureva murimi.
• VaYao vanoti kusimika (to fix upright in the ground) kureva kudzimika.