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AMA undergoes transformation 0 November 8, 2020 8:23 AM Source: AMA undergoes transformation | Sunday Mail (Top Stories) Chief Reporter THE Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) plans to facilitate the structuring of innovative financial instruments to enable smallholder farmers with no collateral to access finance and investment in a new strategy aimed at modernising subsistence agriculture. The recently …
Zim has enough grain stocks: GMAZ NewsDay 6/11/2020 THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has assured the nation that it had imported adequate grain stocks for the festive season although the prices of maize and wheat were expected to rise due to depleted stocks in source countries. BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA In a statement yesterday, …
Egg imports to end chicks crisis Chonicle 5/11/2020 THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says it expects the acute shortage of day-old-chicks to improve significantly after the Government put in place statutory provisions for the importation of nearly 9,5 million fertilised poultry eggs. Demand for day-old-chicks, a major source of income for companies and …
Government assesses farmer preparedness, urges cautious planting Chronicle 5/11/2020 Intwasa Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief GOVERNMENT is evaluating the farmers’ preparedness to ensure a successful 2020/21 summer cropping season. The country seeks to maximise on the normal to above normal rainfall projections this season and hopes to achieve a bumper harvest. A team led …
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COMMENT: Decentralisation of soil testing to provinces most welcome The Chronicle 5/11/2020 GOVERNMENT has announced that it has availed $30 million to fund the decentralisation of soil testing laboratories as it works on improving productivity on land. Soil testing is very critical for cropping as it informs how rich or poor the soil is to …
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Tobacco farmers plant 13k hectares irrigated crop Chronicle 6/11/2020 tobacco AT least 13 000 hectares of land has been put under irrigated tobacco ahead of the 2020/21 summer cropping season, the industry regulator said on Wednesday. Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board, chief executive officer, Andrew Matibiri, said the irrigated tobacco hectarage planted so far …
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Agric sector geared to produce more for industrialisation Chronicle 6/11/2020 Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent THE agriculture sector is geared to contribute towards industrialisation of the economy through increased raw material production for local consumption and exports, a senior Government official has said. Agriculture is the mainstay of the country’s economy and feeds into the …
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Rain gauge boost for Agritex officers Herald 3/11/2020 Agriculture Reporter Inputs suppliers yesterday donated 6 200 rain gauges to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement for use by extension officers across the country to broaden the area of coverage and assist them in their planning so that they can give farmers …
Deboned meat imports drop by 73% Chronicle 3/11/2020 Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter CUMULATIVE imports of mechanically deboned meat into Zimbabwe dropped by 73 percent to 370 tonnes in the first six months of the year, according to the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC). The local meat processing sector largely imports mechanically deboned …
Act responsibly, just maintain those fences and leave them there! Chronicle 3/11/2020 People living adjacent to the roads should just be responsible enough to check if their fences are still serving their intended purpose and correct anomalies that may come with time Obert Chifamba A FEW years back, I was travelling to Bulawayo with …
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