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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...
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GMB to pay maize producers $16k after 30% incentive

Tawanda Marwizi Farmers who deliver their maize and other traditional grains will now enjoy the 30 percent incentive after the Grain Marketing Board directed all its depots to start paying the money. Cabinet recently approved the...

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 to conclude food distribution exercise to vulnerable this week

Walter Mhlanga HARARE – Government will this week conclude the food distribution exercise  to vulnerable people in all 60 rural districts across the country, the Ministry of Public Service , Labour and Social Welfare spokesperson,...

Decreasing milk, chicks and egg production dampens agric season

Staff Writer Zimbabwe could be bubbling with enthusiasm over high prospects of record crop yields but the same cannot be said about other areas of the agricultural sector with milk and poultry on the decline. The...

Tobacco sales total US$59m in the first 15 days

HARARE - At least 26.4 million kilograms of tobacco worth US$59m have been sold so far since the start of tobacco selling season, statistics from the industry regulator show. The sales figure is 278.27%...
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Zimbabwe braces for another cold spell

Talkmore Gandiwa Zimbabwe is headed for another chilly weekend with the Met Department saying cold and dry south-westerly airflow is expected in the country through the southern province of Matebeleland. According to the Meteorological Service Department...

Government to sideline farmers who have not paid their debts

Chris Mahove  Government says it will review its contract agreements with farmers for this cropping season and will not finance those that have not paid their debts from last season. In a statement,  Minister of Lands,...

TSL units in good volume growth in F21

TSL Limited increased revenue by 144.57% following improved performance of the agriculture-based units. The group achieved good volume growth across most business units during the period ended 31 October 2021. In a statement accompanying the group’s...
Most councils in Zimbabwe are struggling to provide water to their residents and government plans to promote roof-top water harvesting to ease the challenge

Enough water for urban centres, but…

Staff Writer Zimbabwe’s major cities Harare and Bulawayo have a combined 39 months’ supply of water that could ease shortages that have hit the urban centres for years. Land, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement...

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