Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Dande gullies threaten Mushumbi The Herald 7/12/2018 Fungai Lupande Mash Central Bureau Manyame River bank erosion has formed a gully that is eating away six metres of land close to Mushumbi Shopping Centre in Mbire District every rainy season threatening to form another river that will isolate the shopping centre, Chitsungo Mission Hospital and …
Official’s illegal land deals backfire The Herald 7/12/2018 Anesu Madiye Herald Reporter Zanu-PF’s Mashonaland West political commissar Simon Solomon yesterday appeared in court on allegations of engaging in irregular land deals after he allegedly sold a farm for $10 000. Since the launch of the land reform programme in 2000 the bulk of farmland …
Let us make livestock vaccines locally: Shiri The Herald 7/12/2018 Sharon Chigeza Mutare Correspondent THE country should make bold decisions to invest in plants that manufacture drugs and vaccines needed in the agricultural sector to reduce dependence on imports, a Cabinet minister has said. Officiating at a strategic planning workshop held in Mutare …
Tugwi-Mukosi master plan delays irk Chadzamira The Herald 7/12/2018 Tawanda Mangoma in Chiredzi Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has expressed concern over delays in the completion of Tugwi-Mukosi irrigation master plan, saying the situation was affecting the take-off of several projects expected to drive the province’s development goals. Minister …
Over 19 000ha tobacco planted The Herald 7/12/2018 At least 19 265 hectares of land have so far been put under tobacco during the 2018 /19 summer cropping season, up from 18 396 hectares that had been planted during the same period last year, statistics released by the industry regulator show. According to …
‘Farmers owe banks $500 million’ 6/12/2018 Source: ‘Farmers owe banks $500 million’ – DailyNews Live BUSINESS WRITER 6 December 2018 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s banks and private players are owed over half a billiondollars by farmers due to inputs abuse, side marketing and poor yields, anofficial has said. Tafadzwa Musarara, the Grain Millers’ Association of …
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White farmers ‘getting poorer, sicker’ as they await govt compensation 6/12/2018 WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses caused by land seizures is slowly dimming, according to some activists. …
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Africa hardest hit by overlapping forms of malnutrition- 2018 global report The Herald 5/12/2018 Roselyne Sachiti Features Editor Tracy Ncube is the deputy sister in charge of the maternity wing at Maphisa District Hospital in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South Province. With the help of her team, she has been ensuring that the mothers and …
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Questions that must be answered before poor countries import or export food The Herald 5/12/2018 Charles Dhewa Correspondent In the absence of evidence-based agricultural policy formulation and implementation, most developing countries always rush to import food without sufficiently understanding their national contexts. During gluts, farmers in areas where fruits are produced in abundance …
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