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ED misleads country on food self sufficiency Source: ED misleads country on food self sufficiency | Daily News HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is grossly misleading the country regarding food self sufficiency, a leading financial research firm has said. Equity Axis said latest trade data show a spike in maize imports. This comes against the background of …
Fall armyworm raises hunger threat in Gwanda Source: Fall armyworm raises hunger threat in Gwanda | Daily News GWANDA – The fall armyworm is threatening food production and the livelihoods of farmers already struggling with pervasive hardships in Gwanda. The fall armyworm has wiped out 30 percent of the maize crop in the province, according to agriculture …
POLITICSWEB OPINION The ANC’s EWC plans are discussed in The Netherlands Alana Bailey 16 July 2018 Alana Bailey writes on the colloquium in The Hague hosted by South African Monitor South African government’s expropriation plans discussed in The Netherlands In June 2018 the foundation South African Monitor hosted a colloquium in The Hague, …
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Foot-n-mouth quarantines Mt Darwin, Rushinga The Herald Fungai Lupande Mash Central BureauRUSHINGA and Mt Darwin districts have been quarantined due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, provincial veterinary officer Dr Wimort Chikurunhe has said. Dr Chikurunhe said they were in the process of culling 10 beats which were illegally moved from the two …
Irrigation boost for Masvingo communnity The Herald Tawanda Mangoma in ChiredziThousands of villagers in Masvingo province are expected to benefit following plans by the Masvingo Development Trust to establish community irrigation schemes that will use water from boreholes being drilled by the Trust. The Trust’s chair and Zanu-PF Politburo member Cde Lovemore Matuke last week, …
Tobacco farmers get $20m shot in the arm The Herald Victor Maphosa Correspondent.Agribank has set aside over $20 million to assist tobacco farmers in the coming season, the bank’s strategy, marketing and business development head, Mr Joseph Mverecha, has said. He said the bank has also made available $105 million this year to assist farmers …
1 800 hectares under wheat Locadia Mavhudzi, Midlands CorrespondentMORE than 1 800 hectares of land has been put under the Government funded Command Winter Wheat programme in the Midlands Province, an official has said. In an interview yesterday, Midlands Provincial Crop and Livestock Officer, Mrs Madeline Magwenzi, said the distribution of Command Wheat inputs was ongoing …
Ranger killing poacher jailed | The Chronicle Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court ReporterA POACHER who shot and killed a game ranger at Nottingham Estate in Beitbridge District after he was cornered while checking on his snares, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Bino Ndou (42) of Ndambe village in the border town shot Edmore Ndou …
Land reform quo vidas? LEGAL PERSPECTIVE BY THEO BOSHOFF Theo Boshoff is head of legal intelligence at Agbiz. Email him at theo@agbiz.co.za. Farmer’s weekly SA 29 June 2018 Public hearings on the review of Section 25 of the Constitution, which would make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation, will soon …
The pursuit of democracy – why land reform cannot be ignored. “Awaking on Friday morning, June 20,1913, the South African native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth,” South African writer Sol Plaatje reflected sorrowfully. The 19th century was a period in which several important events …
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