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Millers seek Government intervention on bread shortage The Chronicle 17/10/2018 Natasha Chamba, Business Reporter THE prevailing bread shortage is a result of delays in the transportation of 30 000 tonnes of wheat by rail from Beira in Mozambique, millers said yesterday. The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has sought Government intervention and …
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Lessons from Zim’s failed land reform 17/10/2018 Source: Lessons from Zim’s failed land reform – DailyNews Live William Gumede 16 October 2018 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s failed populist-based land reform is a salutary lessonfor South Africa on how land reform must be pragmatic, safe-guardcommercial agriculture and focus on boosting ordinary subsistence, small,medium and emerging black …
Ema issues veld fire alert 16/10/2018 Source: Ema issues veld fire alert | Daily News HARARE – The Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has recorded 1 431 fire incidences which destroyed 951 080,15 hectares of vegetation since July 31. Although the national burnt area is still lower than that of the previous year, it is increasing each …
Horticulture set to anchor economic revival – NewsDay Zimbabwe 15/10/2018 ZIMBABWE’s economic revival hinges on many sectors and horticulture is one of them, an expert has said. BY RICHARD CHIDZA Horticulture expert Archibald Gumiro, who runs a consultancy firm Oaklands, which is seeking to create markets in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom, last …
Black market rates fall as RBZ, banks in firing line – NewsDay Zimbabwe 15/10/2018 LOCAL commercial banks and senior figures within the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are either involved in fanning the black market activities that reached alarming levels last week or incompetent to the point of failing their mandate, it has emerged. …
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Commission embarks on national fruit-tree growing programme The Herald 15/10/2018 Lifestyle Writer Zimbabwe continues to experience droughts caused by climate change and variability which has impacted on food and nutrition security especially for the local communities who lack alternative sources of food. Forestry as a practice falls under the Food Security and Nutrition …
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Moringa now a cash crop The Herald 15/10/2018 Fungai Lupande Mashonaland Central Bureau The Moringa tree has become a cash crop for the Nyambudzi community in Ward 10, Mbire, where 21 disadvantaged women and men are earning a living from a nutritional garden. Mbire District falls in the dry ecological region in Mashonaland Central …
Chiredzi man fined two goats for burning 20ha forest . . . fire now key part of climate problem The Herald Climate Story Jeffrey Gogo A headman in Chiredzi slapped Prosper Manyengeni with a fine of two goats after starting a veld fire that blazed through 20 hectares of parched grasslands, decimating pastures and sparse …
‘Zimbabwe now food secure’ The Chronicle 15/10/2018 Elita Chikwati , Harare Bureau Zimbabwe will not import maize as it has become food secure, with farmers having so far delivered 1,1 million tonnes to the Grain Marketing Board for the 2018 marketing season, thanks to the successful Command Agriculture. GMB officials said they expected …
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