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Treasury to release $500M weekly to pay cotton farmers

Takudzwa Musakasa Treasury will release $500 million, every week to settle outstanding 2021 payments to cotton farmers. Cotton deliveries last year grew to 116,052 tonnes, up from 82,479 tonnes in 2020, contributed by government subsidies...

Comesa plans regional Agricultural Commodity Exchange centre

Plans are underway to establish a regional Agricultural Commodity Exchange Centre as part of the implementation of the 2021-2031 strategy for the Alliance for Commodity Trade in East and Southern Africa (ACTESA). The centre shall...

TIMB dismantles tobacco buying syndicate at TSF

Itai Ndongwe HARARE - The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has uncovered and dismantled sophisticated corruption and collusion syndicates operating within the tobacco marketing system in a bold move to safeguard the integrity of...
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A look into Conservation Agriculture and China’s model

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,...

Zim’s low cereal producing areas to face food deficits – FEWSNET

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...

TIMB sees 15% drop in tobacco volume to 220m kgs; 30% sales decentralised

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...
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Perrance Shiri dies

Lands, Agriculture and Rural Settlement Minister Perrance Shiri has died. ivera chain 7210 He was 65. Shiri died in the early hours of Wednesday from suspected coronavirus. This also follows reports that his...

Bread, Mealie Meal prices go up: GMAZ

Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has said the prices of bread and maize meal have gone up due to higher grain and oil prices currently obtaining on global markets due to the Russia-Ukraine...
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Millers pleads with Parly over US$43m debt

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...
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Dip Tank Shortage Worries Parly

Zimbabwean has only 3000 functional dip tanks a move that exposes the country’s livestock to ticks and other diseases, a parliamentary inquiry has established. The portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development...

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