Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Cigar tobacco output hits 24 500kg The Herald Sibongile Maruta Business Reporter Zimbabwe’s cigar wrapper tobacco crop has continued to be popular with farmers with 24 500 kg having been produced during the 2018 marketing season. The high value tobacco brand is being grown in Burma valley where there are favourable conditions. The crop …
Mazango: Young farmer on a mission The Herald Cletus Mushanawani Mashonaland Central Bureau A FEW years ago, Baldwin Mazango (33), did not have the faintest sniffs that one day he would trade his white collar marketing job for farmers’ shoes and work-suits. When he was recently capped with a Bachelors’ Degree in Marketing at …
Shashe scheme’s $100k dream Shadrack Bepere Prosper Ndlovu, Recently in BeitbridgeCOMMUNAL farmers under the Shashe Irrigation Scheme in Beitbridge District expect to realise more than $100 000 from the sale of their citrus and horticulture products this year. The scheme, arguably one of the highly organised irrigation schemes in the country, is run by about …
Profeeds, National Foods merger blocked National Foods company in Bulawayo Prosper Ndlovu, Business EditorTHE Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) has blocked the proposed horizontal merger between diversified milling conglomerate, National Foods Limited’s stock feed unit with Profeeds (Pvt) Limited on the grounds that the move would create a monopoly that could stifle fair competition in …
Is it All Over for Quail Farming in Zimbabwe? Featured Articles Is it All Over for Quail Farming in Zimbabwe? 09 June 2017 Until recently, quail farming in Zimbabwe was booming as lucrative alternative for small-scale producers – and then it all suddenly went wrong. Ian Nkala reports on how a single ministerial misstep …
International exhibitors for horticulture trade fair Tabitha Mutenga Features Editor The horticulture industry of Zimbabwe is being revitalised to become a major foreign currency earner. OVER 40 Zimbabwean and international exhibitors have registered for the country’s first international horticulture trade fair since 2001 to be held in Harare in October.Zimbabwe will host the new horticulture …
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TBs for Command Agriculture inputs Ndakaziva Majaka, Deputy Markets Editor Government has paid for Command Agriculture inputs in Treasury Bills. LISTED seed producer SeedCo Holdings (SeedCo) says government has paid for Command Agriculture inputs in Treasury Bills (TBs). Government, through the John Mangudya-led central bank has been issuing TBs to fund its programmes over the past …
Lake Harvest gains tilapia market share Shame Makoshori, Companies Editor Today Lake Harvest produces 70 percent of farmed fish, 85 percent of fish feed and 80 percent of fingerling production in Zimbabwe. ZIMBABWE’s largest fish producer, Lake Harvest (LH), has gained 70 percent market share of farmed tilapia since its establishment in 1997, with its …
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo province had finally come to an end. BY TATENDA CHITAGU Over 3 000 families were forced to …
Farmers and veld fire preparedness The Herald Veld fires have become one of Zimbabwe’s greatest environmental challenges for the past decade, mostly affecting the farming community. These are blazes that get out of control and in the process destroy extensive tracts of forests, grasslands, animals, people and their properties. This burning has negative impacts …