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Tobacco marketing season ends | The Chronicle Dr Andrew Matibiri Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business ReporterTHE 2018 tobacco marketing season has come to an end after auction floors closed last Friday while contract sales will continue until further notice, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has announced. This year’s selling season, which began on March …
Forests suffer amid tobacco record-breaking euphoria This year farmers destroyed a total of almost 60,000 hectares gathering wood to cure tobacco. In 2016, that figure hovered around 50,000ha Climate Story Jeffrey Gogo“We aren’t really concerned about planting trees,” says one smallholder tobacco farmer — whom we shall call Jessica — from the Headlands. Jessica lives …
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Record tobacco sales mask declining crop productivity THE state media went to town this week, hailing the record 238 million kg of tobacco sold as at July 23 in this current but soon-to-close tobacco marketing season, which is an improvement on the 237 million kg delivered in 2000. The Brett Chulu Column Space does not …
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Govt must guarantee agriculture insurance Zimbabwe’s government has over the years been supporting agriculture through provision of inputs and various subsidies, but paying little attention to crop insurance. Financial Matters with Tinashe Kaduwo Various governments are supporting crop insurance to cushion farmers in times of distress. Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and India, for example, have over …
Government hunts for tobacco alternative In the region, Zimbabwe is the largest producer of tobacco. AS international pressure on the ban on tobacco growing and tobacco use mounts, government has called on farmers to come up with an alternative crop that is capable of ensuring the same economic benefits as tobacco.Anti-tobacco lobbyists have been pushing …
Investors target Agribank – The Financial Gazette Agribank chief executive officer, Sam Malaba SEVERAL investors have been lined up to snap a significant stake in Agribank, as government moves to recapitalise the financial institution. The agro-focused bank — wholly owned by government — is struggling to effectively deliver on its mandate of providing agriculture funding due …
Land reform cost Zimbabwe $33bn Former president Robert Mugabe is blamed for the chaos that characterised the Land reform THE land reform programme has cost the country over $33 billion in export revenue due to failure to fully participate on the global markets, statistics have indicated.Zimbabwean agricultural economist and trade policy analyst based in South …