Agri Trends 9 April 2019
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Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
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Dam Levels as at 02-April-2019 DAM NAME FULL SUPPLY CAPACITY CURRENT CAPACITY % FULL DAILY TREND (millions of cubic metres) (millions of cubic metres) Kariba 64800.00 24013.4 37.1 Tugwi Mukosi 1802.6 1065 59.1 Mutirikwi 1378.08 715.048 51.9 Manyame 480.23 450.353 93.8 Osborne 401.64 284.414 70.8 Mazvikadei 343.815 314.354 91.4 Manyuchi 309.06 238.678 …
Farmers welcome new producer prices 12/4/2019 The Herald Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter Farmers have welcomed the new producer prices announced by Government, but urged the State to control the cost of inputs to enable them to break even. Government on Tuesday announced new producer prices for various crops for the 2019-2020 farming season reflective …
Tobacco sales gross $14 million 12/4/2019 The Herald At least 8,1 million kilograms of tobacco worth about $14 million have been sold so far at auction and contract floors in the country since the marketing season opened last month, statistics from the industry regulator show. Previously a preserve for white commercial farmers, tobacco farming …
Govt to address pricing madness 12/4/2019 The Herald Africa Moyo Senior Business Reporter GOVERNMENT is working on mechanisms for the National Competitiveness Commission (NCC) to work with industry on a framework for pricing of goods, standards and service delivery. This was said by Industry and Commerce Deputy Minister Raj Modi in his key-note address …
Farmers, business welcome decision 12/4/2019 The Herald Golden Sibanda Senior ReporterWhite former commercial farmers have described Government’s decision to start compensating them for improvements on farms taken to resettle landless people as a welcome gesture that should bring finality to the land question. In a joint statement, the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), the Compensation …
Politics, constitutionalism of compensation 12/4/2019 The Herald Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter There is a method and law to Zimbabwe’s policy of compensating white former commercial farmers for improvements on the land, steeped in the Constitution and the Second Republic’s ethos. Yesterday, legal experts and analysts rallied behind President Mnangagwa’s stance of compensating white former …
— COMMENT — Realpolitik of compensation 12/4/2019 The Herald Realpolitik is defined as “a system of politics or principles based on practical, rather than moral or ideological considerations”. There could be no better term to describe the approach being taken by Zimbabwe under President Mnangagwa regards the emotive land question where the current debate …