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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...

Tobacco farmers to get 50% of proceeds in foreign currency

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...

Tobacco sales top US$14m on day seven

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...

FAO seeks US$180M for Southern Africa food crisis, calls for shift to agricultural aid

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...

Heavy rains weigh down January milk production

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....

Download: August milk production figures

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...

Govt announces 2022/23 pre-planting producer prices

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,...
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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...

Seed Co R & D annual spend on parent seeds currently at US$10m

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...

Govt sets new wheat record

By Talkmore Gandiwa The government is targeting 624,000 tonnes of wheat this year against the annual national requirement target of 360,000 tonnes. This will surpass the highest wheat production recorded in 1996. This comes after the...

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