Zim, southern Africa food crisis worsens in 2020
Farai Mabeza
ZIMBABWE, together with the rest of the southern African region, is expected to face high food deficit in 2020 due to the continued effects of the 2018/19 drought compounded by a poor forecast...
Zim, UK launch horticulture trade partnership
Farai Mabeza
Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom have launched a trade partnership programme to build the country’s capacity to increase exports of horticultural products to the UK and European Union markets.
The programme, dubbed the United...
A look into Conservation Agriculture and China’s model
Farai Mabeza
CONSERVATION agriculture is built on three principles – minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation – that are known to reduce erosion, improve soil quality, conserve water, reduce fuel costs and,...
February Milk Production: Download
HARARE - According to statistics released by the Dairy Services unit, month-on-month milk production for the month of February declined by 8.13% to 8.8 million litres from 9.5 million litres recorded in the month...
Villagers want Govt to resize Gokwe game parks
Tawanda Marwizi
The Simchembu area in Gokwe North is tucked between Chizarira and Chirisa Game Parks.
Situated about 40 kilometers from the popular Gokwe growth point Chitekete, it has 36 wards and harbors a growing population...
TIMB ditches unpopular out of Harare auction floors
Reason Razao
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has registered three auction floors in Harare after some registered outside failed to attract farmers and registering sales as low as five percent in the previous season.
The...
Govt increases shareholding in Cottco, Silo Foods
HARARE - Government says it has increased its shareholding in Cottco to 51% which is in tandem with its contribution to the company.
Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a media briefing that due to continued...
GMB pre-planting prices discouraging: ZICFU
Christopher Mahove
HARARE - The pre-planting producer prices announced by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) last week are unsustainable and discouraging to farmers, the Zimbabwe Integrated Commercial Farmers Union (ZICFU) has said.
The GMB last week...
Parly Summons Masuka & Mthuli Over Late Wheat Payments
Parliament has summoned Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka and Minister of Finance and Economic Development Prof Mthuli Ncube to come up with a ministerial statement over the delay in payment of wheat farmers
Rising on a matter...
