Agriculture

Xolisani Ncube The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has pleaded with Parliament to assist its members settle a US$43m owed to wheat suppliers for 2017-2018 period. In letter penned by Tafadzwa Musarara after his recent...

Itai Ndongwe  HARARE – Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Development,  Anxious Masuka, announced that Zimbabwe is actively exploring export markets for its wheat, both regionally and internationally, following a record-breaking harvest that has...

Itai Ndongwe HARARE- The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) says tobacco exports have reached impressive numbers, with 48 million kilograms of tobacco worth over US$309 million exported to date A significant portion of these exports,...

Itai Ndongwe HARARE- The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors has approved a US$10.12 million grant from the African Development Fund to support Zimbabwe in boosting sustainable agricultural production and strengthening rural resilience in...

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...

Sydney Kawadza Some areas in Zimbabwe are likely to face acute food shortages from October going into the new year despite the country receiving above normal rain during the 2020/2021 agricultural season, the Famine Early...

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...

Chris Mahove  The government has suspended duty on the importation of certain quantities of fertiliser for the 2021/2021 cropping season. According to a government gazette published this week, Urea fertiliser, whether or not in aqueous solution...

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...

Farai Mabeza Government has blamed foreign exchange woes for its failure to develop adequate irrigation infrastructure in the face of consecutive droughts experienced in Zimbabwe. In the Annual Budget and Economic Review for the 2019 fiscal...