Agriculture

Reason Razao Government has expressed satisfaction with preparations for the 2020/2021 summer agricultural season with 2.2 million families being recruited and trained under the ‘Pfumvudza’ programme. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare Tuesday afternoon, Information,...

Farai Mabeza HARARE – Zimbabwe expects that 30 percent of all tobacco sales will be done outside Harare after Government gazetted a statutory instrument authorising the setting up of decentralised tobacco auction sites in the...

Farai Mabeza The Tobacco and Industry Marketing Board has expressed concern at the continued payment delays and reluctance to release farmers from their contracts by various contractors.  In two different memos addressed to the contractors and...

Download: Milk production Figures Jan-September 2022 (1) Talkmore Gandiwa HARARE – Zimbabwe’s milk production in the nine months to September rose 16.04% to 66.84 million litres from 57.60 million litres recorded in the same period last...

Farai Mabeza CONSERVATION agriculture is built on three principles – minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation – that are known to reduce erosion, improve soil quality, conserve water, reduce fuel costs and,...

MUTARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched an oxygen plant that will have positive impact in various value chains in the health and agriculture sector. Mnangagwa launched an Air Separation Unit plant with an installed daily...

Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Dr Anxious Masuka has revealed that 500 farmers out of the 23 000 have received 99-year leases from the government. He was responding to a question...

Farai Mabeza THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has availed office equipment and a 4 X 4 vehicle to the Horticulture Development Council (HDC) under the AgriInvest initiative. AgriInvest is a regional programme to support host...

Talkmore Gandiwa With pale faces carved with visible marks of sorrow, tobacco farmers sit patiently outside one of Zimbabwe’s tobacco auction floors in Harare, the capital city. In their minds, all they are consumed with are...

HARARE - Spear Capital has concluded an investment deal with Greenwave Milling, a manufacturer and distributor of quality high-value basic commodities throughout Zimbabwe. Previously part of the Metro Group, which is already a Spear Capital...