Agriculture

HARARE - The country's maize production is estimated to have risen 17% in the 2019/20 season, but the biggest concern remains the poor yields, which averaged 0.57 tonnes per hectare. According to the Second...

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...

HARARE – Milk processor ProDairy, which is part of the Innscor Africa group says it is targeting an increase in raw milk intake this year, supported by the milk development programme at Mafuro farming...

Sydney Kawadza Farmers have called on government to deal with several issues affecting agricultural production so that some of its goals, including the Accelerated Irrigation Rehabilitation and Development Plan:...

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...

Staff Writer The District Development Fund has lost approximately 90 percent of its tractor units affecting its vital tillage services to resettled farmers. The DDF’s mandate includes providing and maintaining sustainable rural development infrastructure, resettlement tillage,...

Sydney Kawadza The favourable 2020/2021 agricultural season, while ensuring food security in Zimbabwe, has also increased the country’s veld fires risk which has been classified as extreme. Zimbabwe is targeting to achieve the 25 percent reduction...

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...

Tadiwa Musiyiwa  Crisis outcomes are expected to persist in most typical deficit-producing areas through March due to non-availability of own-produced food stocks, reductions in agricultural labour opportunities and income, and limited access to food and...

Problem Masau As the vehicle negotiates across the rugged terrains of Hurungwe District, scores of stumps and fallen trees could be seen in the once densely populated bushes, the situation threatening to worsen each farming...