Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
ANTI-POACHING MEETING ABANDONED Everson Mushava STAFF WRITER Daily News 6 July 2011 Wildlife officials, politicians and police officers were forced to abandon an anti-poaching meeting at Mapare Resort Centre in Save Valley Conservancy recently after poachers gunned down a rhino right under their noses. Highlighting how serious the problem of poaching is, the group had …
COMMERCIAL FARMERS’ UNION CLASSIFIEDS WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2011 For those wishing to receive the CFU Classifieds by Email ‘free of charge’ please send details of Name, Company, Physical address, Contact phone numbers and Email address to where the Classifieds are to be sent to advert@cfuzim.org for our database records If you would …
Hunting of black rhinos on farms on the increase http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Zimbabwe’s policy of redistributing land owned by white commercial farmers has caused unmitigated “ecological disaster”, according to an eminent conservationist.04.07.1106:11amChief Reporter Professor Johan du Toit, says wildlife populations have been overhunted in Zimbabwe after farms were handed over to black Zimbabweans. He warned that the country’s black rhinos, …
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Cattle thief jailed for 189 years http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 04/07/2011 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter A CATTLE thief has been sentenced to 189 years in jail for stock theft – dwarfing the previous record sentence of 47 years for the crime. Fabion Nyamayedenga, 40, from Murehwa, raided farms and kraals in Mashonaland East province between October 2009 and December 2010.He …
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118,5m kgs flue cured tobacco goes under the hammer http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:37 A TOTAL of 118,5 million kgs of flue cured tobacco valued at US$323,4 million have so far been sold since the auction floors opened in February this year.The sales are up 27,14%, from the 93,1 million kgs valued at US$276,5 million sold during …
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ARAC UPDATE #10 1 July 2011 Dear Farmer, Earlier in the month a group of farmers (not all men) attended the three day workshop that we had arranged with Foundations for Farming. It was a rewarding experience for all who participated and I would like to particularly thank Brian Oldrieve and his team for the …
COMMERCIAL FARMERS’ UNION CLASSIFIEDS WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2011 For those wishing to receive the CFU Classifieds by Email ‘free of charge’ please send details of Name, Company, Physical address, Contact phone numbers and Email address to where the Classifieds are to be sent to advert@cfuzim.org for our database records If you would …
Eastern Zimbabwe Plantations Face Grim Future http://www.voanews.com June 27, 2011 Peta Thornycroft | Chipinge, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland Province may have taken the hardest blows from President Robert Mugabe’s 11 years of seizures of land from white farmers. . In eastern Zimbabwe, years of neglect have left many plantations that once produced avocados, macademia nuts, coffee and timber …