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TSL says Q2 volumes to be affected by late start to tobacco marketing season

HARARE - TSL says the late start to the tobacco marketing season volumes in the second quarter of all tobacco related businesses are expected to be below prior year although this is expected to...

Download: February Milk Production Statistics

Milk production Figures Jan-Feb 2025(1)
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GMAZ fails to account for US$27m wheat facility

Almot Maqolo HARARE – Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) had a torrid time in parliament as it failed to provide concrete evidence on how the US$27 million facility meant for importing wheat and refurbishing...

GMB reviews producer prices for 2024/25 season

HARARE - The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has announced the approved producer prices for the 2024/25 season, along with the winter wheat incentive planning prices. The price of maize per tonne has decreased by 3.5%...

Innscor invests $10.4m in agriculture to boost local food security

HARARE (FinX) - Innscor Africa Limited's agriculture unit, PHI/Agrowth, invested a total of US$10.4 million in the current summer cropping season as part of its objectives to ensure a continuous supply of raw materials...
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CBZ Bank issues US$50m and ZW$500M bonds for agric inputs

HARARE (FinX) - CBZ Bank is seeking to raise US$50 million and ZWL500 million through the issuance of a series of 270-day bond instruments to finance the procurement of farming inputs for maize and...

FAO seeking US$20m to overcome food insecurity in Zimbabwe

Staff Writer United Nations agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is seeking at least US$20 million to assist 630 000 Zimbabwe overcome expected food insecurity in 2021. According to FAO’s latest Humanitarian Support Plan for 2021,...

Zim sets US$5bln revenue target for tobacco by 2025

Tadiwa Musiyiwa  Government has approved the Tobacco Value Chain Transformation Plan aimed at transforming the tobacco value chain into a US$5 billion industry by 2025 through localisation of tobacco financing, increased production and productivity and exports...
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OP-ED: A journey across the global South, sharing and exchanging sustainable development solutions

Beth Bechdol Have you ever wondered how key development solutions between and among countries of the Global South are conceived, exchanged and shared? The answer is: South-South cooperation.
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Govt owes millers $120m – GMAZ

Almot Maqolo HARARE – The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says it is owed more than $120m by government for roller meal subsidy refunds dating back from last December. This, the association says, was affecting...

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