Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
There will be life after Covid-19 Herald 21/4/2020 In these times of the Covid-19 pandemic, farmers must learn to harvest small quantities which can be sold and exhausted in a day and avoid ferrying huge quantities to the market where very few buyers are coming Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight THE bulk of humanity’s day-to-day activities …
Opening of tobacco sales floors put on hold Herald 21/4/2020 Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter The 2020 tobacco marketing season which was scheduled to open yesterday has been postponed to allow stakeholders to devise mechanisms to sell the crop while ensuring minimum risks of spreading the Covid-19 pandemic. This was said by Lands, Agriculture, Water, …
A pandemic-driven food crisis in Africa can be prevented Chronicle 21/4/2020 We have only just begun to see the far-ranging consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world. Chief among those is the threat of a food crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Unless measures are taken fast to keep global food supply chains operational and …
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Millers target private sector By Caroline Chiimba Daily News 20/4/2020 Grain millers association chairman Tafadzwa Musarara -Pic Annie Mpalume THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has turned to crowd funding from the private sector to raise the US$25 million needed for maize imports. The initiative is targeted at Zimbabweans in the Diaspora and non-governmental …
Govt sets maize producer price at $12 329/t – NewsDay Zimbabwe 20/4/2020 GOVERNMENT has reviewed upwards the producer prices for maize, traditional grains and soyabeans for the 2020/21 marketing season with the effect from April 1, 2020. — BY TAFADZWA MHLANGA The new price for maize was pegged at $12 329, traditional grains at $12 …
Kapenta fishing ban lifted Herald 20/4/2020 Walter Nyamukondiwa Kariba Bureau Government has exempted kapenta fishing in Lake Kariba from the lockdown, but set stringent measures that must be followed to minimise spread of Covid-19. Among the raft of measures is a strict monitoring and sanitisation in the kapenta value chain, including limiting the number …
President Mnangagwa’s Independence Day speech in full Chronicle 20/4/2020 President Mnangagwa The First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa; Honourable Vice President, Gen. (Rtd) Dr. C.G.D.N. Chiwenga; Honourable Vice President, Col. (Rtd) Cde. K. C.D. Mohadi and Amai Mohadi; Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate J.F. Mudenda, Honourable President of the Senate, Amai M.M. Chinomona, Honourable Ministers, Honourable Minister of State …
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President extends Covid-19 lockdown Chronicle 20/4/2020 President Mnangagwa addresses the nation Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has extended the Covid-19 national lockdown to May 3 as part of the Government’s broad response to the rising number of cases in the country. The lockdown which started on March 30, was meant to expire at …
Zesa to get tough with defaulters 1 April 20, 2020 2:04 AM Source: Zesa to get tough with defaulters | Sunday Mail (Business) Dumisani Nsingo Zesa Holdings should use more aggressive strategies to recover an outstanding debt of more than $1 billion owed by consumers, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has said. “We must clear …
CSC faces uncertain future Independent 17/4/2020 TROUBLED state-owned meat processor Cold Storage Company (CSC) may be seeing its last days amid revelations its new investor is facing serious challenges in raising the required capital to revive operations. Nkululeko Sibanda In 2018, Boustead Beef was unveiled by the government as the new investor who would run …