Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Zim fights post-harvest losses – The Financial Gazette Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri By Farai Mabeza ZIMBABWE is prioritising staple and horticultural crops in the fight against post-harvest losses, a top government official has said.This is being done under an African Union (AU) project called Capacity to increase AU member countries …
Treasury-Bills income adds to SeedCo profit SeedCo chief executive officer, Morgan Nzwere SEEDCO’S income from Treasury Bills (TBs) significantly added to the company’s profit for the year ended March 2018. Last week, the company reported a five percent increase in profit for the year ended March 31, 2018, recording $21,4 million, up from $20,4 …
600 000 electricity prepaid meters installed Prepaid meter installations have been hampered by the shortage of foreign currency THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has procured and installed 612 000 prepaid electricity meters in households and businesses throughout the country.The programme began five years ago as the power utility tries to improve …
Poultry meat sector improves – The Financial Gazette Day old chicks prices per 100 increased to $97 from $66 last year. AN aggressive restocking of breeder birds by the poultry industry since the outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) last year has seen an increase of pre-laying broiler breeder birds from 130 000 in September …
Egg supply to remain depressed RECOVERY of the country’s egg market is expected to take longer as investments in layer breeding birds, though positive, have not reached the levels accomplished in the broiler sector.Prices are expected to remain high in the second to third quarters. The industry is against the importation of table eggs …
Zimbabwe tobacco sales up – DailyNews Live STAFF WRITER • 7 June 2018 2:34PM • 0 comments HARARE – Zimbabwean farmers sold 167,14 million kg of the nation’s top export earner, tobacco, by Day 49 of the selling season, which is 20 percent shy of a current season target of 200 million kg, official data showed …
Army clears forest of illegal panners Bernard Chiketo • 7 June 2018 2:51PM • 0 comments MUTARE – Soldiers have cleared illegal artisanal gold miners who had maintained a two-decade stranglehold on government-owned Allied Timbers’ Tarka Forest Reserve – a commercial pine tree plantation in Chimanimani – in a clean sweep that suggests a previous lack …
Bread shortages loom – NewsDay Zimbabwe newsday GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has warned that the country faces imminent bread shortages if millers do not get an urgent allocation of forex to import wheat, as there is only three weeks’ supply left. BY FREEMAN MAKOPA In an urgent letter to the Reserve Bank of …
Tongwe Irrigation Scheme brings more smiles, cash to villagers newsday ELIKANAH Muleya (53) has a 0,4 hectare plot at Tongwe Irrigation Scheme, some 40km north-west of Beitbridge town. BY OWN CORRESPONDENT It draws water by gravitation from Tongwe Dam, a man-made oasis in the middle of a dry area. Along with 74 other plot-holders, Muleya, …
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Youth in the driving seat of agricultural revolution The Herald Ali Said CorrespondentYouths face many structural, financial, technological and knowledge barriers to participate in agriculture. In some cases, the youths have challenges accessing land while those that have pieces of land and produce struggle to find viable markets for the produce whether crop or …
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