Govt blames towns councils for segregation of duties
Reason Razao
HARARE - Government is set to drill 5 000 boreholes to address water shortages across the country as it claims that there is segregation of duties by town councils in providing tapped water.
Concerns...
Milk production rises 20% in five months to May
Talkmore Gandiwa
HARARE - The Ministry of Agriculture is set to source 200 in-calf heifers in a bid to increase genetics and milk production in the country just after the country recorded an upward trend...
AfDB approves US$34.8m grants for Malawi & Zimbabwe’s climate resilience
The African Development Bank has approved US$34.8 million, (US$34,796,402.40) in grants to enhance resilience and adaptation to climate disaster risks for vulnerable communities in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Under the bank group’s Africa Disaster Risk Financing...
Government wheat scheme propels SeedCo Q3 sales volume
HARARE - ZSE-listed seed producer, SeedCo limited recorded substantial growth in sales volumes during the nine months to December and Q3-23 thanks to government's wheat program which resulted in the group realizing record local...
Backyard to Business: How Hydroponics is Changing Urban Farming in Zimbabwe
By Kovedzayi Takawira
It's early morning in a wooden box office at Vitagrow Urban Farm in a leafy suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Co-founder and Managing Director Keith Chipudhla (34) and his accountant are busy with...
Zim executive on Time’s 100 Climate Leaders list
Farai Mabeza
HARARE - The chief executive officer of African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd), Lesley Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean, has been selected as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2024.
ARC...
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...
Women form backbone of Africa’s economy
Dr. Jennifer Blanke, Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development takes stock and answers three questions about African women and agriculture and gives us results from the ground in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Sudan
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Cottco expects 27% reduced cotton intake to 85 000t
HARARE – Cottco Holdings says it expects reduced intake in the current season due to the late onset of the rains and the erratic rainfall patterns but payment modalities have been put in place...
Milk production rises 7% in eight months to Aug (DOWNLOAD)
Milk production increased 6.83% in the eight months to August to 63.05 million litres from 59.02 million in the comparable year ago period, latest figures from the Ministry of Agriculture show.
Month on month, output...
