Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Boosting community awareness on health and nutrition issues during the COVID-19 emergency Herald 4/6/2020 Cynthia Ncube Takudzwa Mutonho, (29) lives in Norton’s Twin Lakes Park – a typical developing low density area in a small town in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province. With only a few families in a street, everyone knows each other, creating …
142 000 Matabeleland South households in need of food aid Chronicle 4/6/2020 Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent NEARLY 142 000 households in Matabeleland South Province are in need of food aid under the drought relief programme as the number of vulnerable households continues to rise due to the effects of drought and Covid-19. Speaking during …
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Govt debts cripple small-scale grain millers By Newsday – June 2, 2020 GOVERNMENT is yet to settle outstanding subsidy payments to grain millers, a situation threatening the viability of the struggling sector in the face of inflationary pressures facing the wobbling economy. BY NQOBANI NDLOVU This is contained in a letter dated May 27 by the Small-to-Medium …
2021 tobacco season preparations begin Herald 3/6/2020 Herald Reporter Preparations for the 2021 tobacco production season have began, with irrigated farmers expected to have started sowing seedbeds yesterday. Most irrigated tobacco farmers are contracted growers and get their inputs timely. However, most smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fed agriculture are expected to start sowing …
Minister commends support for vulnerable groups Herald 3/6/2020 Minister Shiri Herald Reporters LANDS, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri has commended the support provided by corporates to the elderly and vulnerable groups in drought-prone areas of Rushinga District in Mashonaland Central Province. Villagers received tonnes of food hampers from, Hamilton Insurance …
Plans afoot to desilt Save Herald 3/6/2020 Save river Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau Government will soon start desilting Save River and reviving idle irrigation schemes across the country to increase agricultural activity and ensure food security, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said. He was speaking at the launch of the Presidential Heifer pass-on Scheme …
Covid-19 triggers boom in fresh produce 3/6/2020 The Herald Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter Zimbabwe is likely to see a huge demand for some of its horticultural crops in Europe after production there was badly affected by disruptions caused by lockdowns as the world battled to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. There was …
Khami Prison farming model to be replicated countrywide Chronicle 3/6/2020 Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter CABINET last night revealed that the farming model at Khami Prison near Bulawayo is now being replicated at other prisons countrywide as it has proved to be a viable source of livelihood and providing supplementary feeding to prisoners. The model, …
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Strict guidelines for reopening schools Chronicle 3/6/2020 Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter CABINET yesterday released strict guidelines that will see schools reopen with limited class sizes at a time when universities have been given up to August 31 to complete the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. Schools and universities prematurely closed on March …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Getting farmers back to the land Herald 2/6/2020 GMB Silos Providing incentives for farmers to produce achieves multiple purposes — self-sufficiency, reduction in the import bill, creation of more employment opportunities, and for the more enterprising, value addition. Last week, the Government announced that farmers will receive a 30 percent bonus for …