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Padenga says F20 earnings to be lower due to limited skin sales

HARARE - Padenga Holdings has issued a profit warning saying forthcoming results for the year to December 31, 2020 will have lower earnings than the comparable year ago period. This comes as luxury shopping behaviour,...
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COVID-19 response must target African agriculture and the rural poor

Olusegun Obasanjo and Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe ROME, Italy,  – Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent looks like it could be the worst hit from the...

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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...

Crisis outcomes expected due to erratic rainfall: Fewsnet

Tadiwa Musiyiwa  Crisis outcomes are expected to persist in most typical deficit-producing areas through March due to non-availability of own-produced food stocks, reductions in agricultural labour opportunities and income, and limited access to food and...
African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina on Thursday spoke out on the urgent need to finance climate adaptation

Tap into growing agriculture sector – Adesina

Sydney Kawadza African countries should tap the agriculture, food and agri-business sector whose size is expected to rise to more than US$1 trillion by 2030. The agriculture, food and agri-business sector, according to African Development Bank...
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Zim farmers shift focus to sesame plant production

Shamiso Ngwena & Cynthia Chitombi Zimbabwean farmers, struggling with traditional crops such as maize, have shifted focus to the sesame plant targeting at least 100 000 tonnes of the crop during the 2020/2021 agricultural season. Agricultural...

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...
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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...
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NatFoods F21 profit retreats on high production costs, cheap maize imports

HARARE – National Foods profit for the year retreated significantly on account of high production costs and a disappointing performance in the Maize unit which suffered stiff competition from cheap maize meal imports from...

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