Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Government sets new wheat producer price Minister Monica Mutsvangwa The Chronicle 12/12/2018 Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT has set the wheat producer selling price for the 2018/19 agricultural marketing season at US$630 per tonne, up from US$500, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, has said. Minister Mutsvangwa made the announcement yesterday …
Please click on each each of the below to view video clips of the main speeches at our Congress in 2018: https://youtu.be/-Nd7ZdJIqf4 – CFU ANNIVERSARY Andre Groenewald.mp4 https://youtu.be/wawi6SRsNRU – CFU ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION 1.mp4 https://youtu.be/5GQZEVJFUnE – CFU ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION 2.mp4 https://youtu.be/1rl9u7UHEN4 – CFU ANNIVERSARY President of the Commercial Farmers’ Union, Andrew Pascoe.mp4 …
New lease of life for Cashel Valley Irrigation Scheme The Herald 11/12/2018 Nyore Madzianike Manicaland Bureau VILLAGERS in districts across the country are set to benefit from various training programmes to be undertaken by the District Development Fund as part of the Government’s devolution process. The training programmes will seek to equip people …
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Heavy rains time to plant, farmers told The Herald 11/12/2018 Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) yesterday said the skies should start clearing tomorrow after heavy rains and thunderstorms that were experienced in most parts of the country over the weekend. This comes as farmers have been urged to …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Farmers must spread their plantings across season The Chronicle 11/12/2018 The rainy season has started with some parts of the country receiving decent rains but others are still largely dry. Farmers in areas that have received good rains are already ploughing and planting various crops, especially maize. We are happy that …
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Matebeleland South villagers in bid to trademark amacimbi eDuzeNet 10/12/2018 VILLAGERS in Matebeleland South province have teamed to come up with policies that govern the harvest of amacimbi/amadhora from their area. Information from the province shows that the delicacy is faces a high risk of extinction in the wild due to over harvesting and deforestation. …
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Farming systems, opportunities, challenges, future insights in Zim NewsDay 10/12/2018 THE nature of farming systems in this country has been transformed over the years and continue to be modelled and re-aligned to the regional and international benchmarks in order to suit the changing climate as well as the farm mechanisation models around the …
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Chinese factory workers found selling polished ivory NewsDay Zimbabwe 10/12/2018 Eleven people, who include nine employees at a Chinese factory, appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing allegations of contravening sections of Parks and Wildlife Management Act and fraud after they were allegedly found selling polished ivory, with fake parks reference numbers. BY DESMOND …
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Arda farm exports tea to Germany The Herald 10/12/2018 Fungai Lupande Mash Central Bureau Arda-MushumbI farm has struck gold with its tea from the rosella plant, which it is exporting to Germany, a farm official Mr Aaron Jonas revealed. He added that although the farm had a variety of competing crops for export …
Elephants wreak havoc The Herald 10/12/2018 Luthando Mapepa FARMERS in the Chibuwe/Musikavanhu irrigation scheme have appealed to Government for assistance in controlling elephants that are destroying their summer crop. The elephants are straying from Save Conservancy and destroying the maize crop and banana plantations in the irrigation scheme. The farmers said they were …