ProDairy targets production increase at Mafuro as milk output increases 4% in F21
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...
Mnangagwa launches oxygen plant, boost for health, agriculture
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...
FAO seeking US$20m to overcome food insecurity in Zimbabwe
Staff Writer
United Nations agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is seeking at least US$20 million to assist 630 000 Zimbabwe overcome expected food insecurity in 2021.
According to FAO’s latest Humanitarian Support Plan for 2021,...
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...
Grow trees or face ban, tobacco farmers warned
Talkmore Gandiwa
Zimbabwean tobacco farmers are at risk of being banned for endangering the environment resulting in climate change with calls for them to establish woodlots for curing their crops to continue with their activities.
Most...
Zim national herd declines by 5% due to drought and disease
Farai Mabeza
The national cattle herd decreased by 4.7 % from 5 774 525 in 2018 to 5 489 364 in 2019, according to the First Round Crop and Livestock Assessment Report for the 2019/2020...
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...
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...
Forex woes hamper irrigation development
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...
NatFoods F21 profit retreats on high production costs, cheap maize imports
HARARE – National Foods profit for the year retreated significantly on account of high production costs and a disappointing performance in the Maize unit which suffered stiff competition from cheap maize meal imports from...
