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Cotton output for 2017-2018 cropping season increase     The Chronicle 29/11/2018 Natasha Chamba, Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’s cotton output for the 2017/2018 cropping season surged 95 percent compared to the previous period driven by Government’s Presidential input scheme and investments by private cotton companies. According to the Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA), the total output for …

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325 000 cotton growers receive inputs     The Herald 28/11/2018 Business Reporter Nearly 325 000 cotton growers have received inputs under the Government’s Free Inputs Scheme meant to help vulnerable communities and prop up production. The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, which is administering the programme said 324 517 farmers had already received some inputs …

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Government forges ahead with massive pecan nut project     The Chronicle 28/11/2018 Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporter GOVERNMENT is forging ahead with the massive pecan nut project at Arda Balu Estate in Umguza district, Matabeleland North, as the country aims to tap the growing export market for the commercial crop. Last year, the Agricultural and …

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Drought-stricken Zimbabwe at impasse: Grow maize or not?  – Zimbabwe Situation   28/11/2018 FEATURE-Drought-threatened Zimbabwe faces a quandary: Grow maize or not?By Lungelo Ndhlovu Ezimnyama – As Zimbabwe’s farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not persuaded Sikhathele Sibanda to grow …

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Practise conservative farming, Mbire folk told     The Herald 27/11/2018 Fungai Lupande Mashonaland Central Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement deputy minister Cde Douglas Karoro has urged people in Mbire District to practise conservative farming to achieve better yields and preserve the environment. Speaking at Chitsungo Mission Hospital recently Cde Karoro said some …

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10km Tugwi-Mukosi access road complete     The Herald 27/11/2018 George Maponga  Masvingo Bureau A Chinese company has completed the tarring of an access road to Tugwi-Mukosi Dam in a project that chewed more than $7 million and is billed to precipitate inflow of visitors to Zimbabwe’s largest inland water body. Government awarded the contract …

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