Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Urban agric boosts food security: Agritex Agritex has encouraged urbanites to take part in agriculture and boost the food security situation. Speaking at a field day at Gogo Mary Rakata’s plot in Harare North, Agritex officer Mr Elisha Dube said urban farmers had planted 7 655 hectares of maize, 124,4ha of sugar beans and 366ha …
Govt to rationalise farm sizes Government has said it will re-demarcate land allocated to farmers who are failing to attain optimum production owing to resource constraints. In an interview on Tuesday, Mashonaland Central Provincial Governor Advocate Martin Dinha said some farms were too big for occupiers to cope with. “This has seen some of the …
Winter wheat faces power, fuel hitches Few farmers will this winter be able to produce wheat due to several challenges affecting the sector. Farmers have cited shortages of fuel and electricity for irrigation as their major challenges, while others say they don’t have working capital. Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers’ Union president Mr Wilson Nyabonda said though …
CFU Questionnaire for National Database We are requesting all farmers to provide as much information as they can so that we can update our National Database. All information will be kept with strict confidence and would only be distributed in the form national statistics in tabulated and graph form. These accurate statistics are much in …
The Commercial Farmers’ Union has been recording all the incidents which have been occurring on all farms. Although this may seem very mundane to the average person it has proved an extremely useful tool in assisting with our planning purposes and for decisions on moving forward. The Union’s records also consist of an extremely useful database which all …
Plea for help From: “Zimbabwean Farmer”Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:55 PMContinued Eviction of White Commercial Farmers despite the agreements signed upon in the forming of GNU I am emailing out of desperation. Despite the agreements made in the forming of the GNU and the President of South Africa’s State visit that is currently underway …
‘Our ancestors are angry,’ say climate-devastated Zimbabwean farmers http://www.alertnet.org 16 Mar 2010 11:56:00 GMT Written by: AlertNet correspondent Selina Mutoleka and her AIDS-orphaned grandchildren struggle to grow enough food on their farm in Nyimo, Zimbabwe. Climate change is making Zimbabwe’s weather more unpredictable, threatening crops, but many local people attribute the growing problems …
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Billy Rautenbach fingered in escalation of violence in Manicaland http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Tichaona Sibanda16 March 2010 Billy Rautenbach, the 51 year old multimillionaire businessman with close links to ZANU PF, has been accused by the MDC of hounding and intimidating its activists in Manicaland as political tension builds ahead of the constitution making programme. Rautenbach, who …
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Zuma has little chance of fixing Zim’s issues http://www.iol.co.za/ March 16 2010 at 03:25PM By Peta ThornycroftForeign Service President Jacob Zuma’s mission to Harare on Monday is inspiring little hope among Zimbabweans that he can fix their broken year-old unity government. Both President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the powerless Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai seem …
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA /ES (NORTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT, PRETORIA) CASE NO: 3106/07 DATE: 5/2/2010 IN THE MATTER BETWEEN CRAWFORD LINDSAY VON ABO APPLICANT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA FIRST RESPONDENT THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA SECOND RESPONDENT THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THIRD RESPONDENT …