Agriculture

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...

Farai Mabeza Tobacco farmers will get fifty percent of their proceeds in foreign currency, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) announced. In a statement the two organisations said the money...

HARARE – At least 6.16 million kilograms of tobacco worth 13.95 million US dollars have been sold so far since the start of tobacco selling season, statistics from the industry regulator show. ivermectin dose...

HARARE - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking to mobilise US$179.6 million to address escalating food insecurity across Southern Africa, with Zimbabwe among the key beneficiary countries, as the...

Talkmore Gandiwa HARARE - Heavy rains weighed down milk production in January with the figures from the Ministry of Agricultural showing a 2.22% drop to 8.1 million liters from 8.3 million litres recorded in December....

Milk production Figures Jan-Aug 2024 HARARE - In the first eight months of this year, Zimbabwe produced 75.2 million litres of milk, a 19.3% increase from 63 million litres during the same period last year. Month...

Itai Ndongwe The government has set the pre-planting producer prices for strategic commodities for the summer season of 2022/ 2023 in US dollars with maize set at US$335 per tonne in a new pricing model,...

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...

Talkmore Gandiwa/Pride Mzarabani Seed Co Limited said it is spending approximately US$10 million annually on research and development work for parent seeds. The company has been investing in new technology as the company introduces drought-tolerant...