Zimbabwe Crop Assessment 2018 – 2019 Season
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South African Grain Information Services 30 May 2019
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Statutory Instrument 118 of 2019. Horticulture Wages 2019
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Cyclone stalls work on Marowanyati Dam
Cyclone stalls work on Marowanyati Dam 31/5/2019 The Herald Nyore Madzianike Senior Reporter CYCLONE Idai, which ravaged the country in March this year, has stalled construction work at Marowanyati Dam in Buhera as water levels rose drastically, making it difficult to work on some sections. The tropical cyclone also swept away some of the …
Can snake farming be the answer to anti-venom shortages?
Can snake farming be the answer to anti-venom shortages? 31/5/2019 The Herald Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Snakes! Eish! In Zimbabwe and elsewhere across the African continent, snakes inevitably evoke reactions of fear and helplessness. For most people, their stomachs flutter uncomfortably at the mere image of a slithering serpent. Its well …
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BAT programme benefits 700 farmers
BAT programme benefits 700 farmers 31/5/2019 The Herald Cletus Mushanawani Mash Central Bureau MORE than 700 tobacco farmers have benefited from the British American Tobacco Zimbabwe Empowerment Trust-sponsored training programmes that were initiated at Chaminuka Vocational Training Centre in 2015. The diploma and certificate courses have since been spread to Manicaland and Mashonaland West …
Prompt food imports will prevent hunger
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Prompt food imports will prevent hunger 31/5/2019 The Chronicle The 2018/19 agricultural season was a bad one, resulting in the country harvesting less maize than the amount required for national consumption per year. The Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF), projected in August last year that most countries in the region …
ZACC officers wind up training
ZACC officers wind up training 30/5/2019 Source: ZACC officers wind up training | The Herald Herald ReporterTwenty-three Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers who were being trained by the Zimbabwe Republic Police in line with President Mnangagwa’s zero tolerance to the scourge will this week wind up their course. The training is part of measures put in …
$25m irrigation scheme to turn farms into greenbelt
$25m irrigation scheme to turn farms into greenbelt 28/5/2019 The Herald Sydney Kawadza Mashonaland West Bureau Chief A US$25 million irrigation scheme covering 2 000 hectares is set to turn farms along Chinhoyi-Murombedzi Road into a greenbelt, with a European country funding feasibility studies being undertaken by the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ). …
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Embrace modern technologies, smallholder farmers urged
Embrace modern technologies, smallholder farmers urged 29/5/2019 The Herald Sydney Mubaiwa Masvingo Correspondent Government has urged smallholder farmers countrywide to embrace relevant cropping technologies to boost crop production and enhance food security. The appeal was made by Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Permanent Secretary Mr Ringson Chitsiko during the handover of …
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