Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
ProDairy invests $1,6m in project Zimbabwe’s newest milk processor, ProDairy has invested $1,6 million in an ambitious project in which it is hoping to drastically cut the cost of milk production through grass feeding cows as opposed to the current costly method of providing stock feed. Feed accounts for the biggest cost in milk …
Cotton farmers demand incentive for lint exports Tawanda Mangoma in ChiredziCotton farmers have challenged Government to urgently fulfil its pledge to pay them the five percent export incentive for lint exports, to cushion them from high operating costs. The Cotton Producers and Marketers Association national chairman Mr Steward Mubonderi said cotton farmers were grappling …
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Sanctuary owner arrested for attempted murder Victor Maphosa Mash East CorrespondentPolice at Juru Growth Point on Saturday arrested the owner of Bally Vaughan Sanctuary Mr Gordon Putterill, accusing him of intentionally hitting and severely injuring a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) employee with his vehicle. Putterill is said to have …
Govt threatens to expel errant potato farmers Obert Chifamba Manicaland Bureau ChiefGovernment has threatened to expel some farmers around the Nyanga Potato Quarantine Zone after it emerged that they are allowing their cattle to stray into the protected area in contravention of regulations governing disease and pest control. Addressing hundreds of people who attended …
Absentee farmers to lose farms, warns Govt Elita Chikwati Senior ReporterGovernment has warned absentee farmers that they risk losing their farms after an assessment on farms is completed in two months. Speaking at the inaugural tobacco conference that was organised by Cardinal Chartered Accountants, Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Davis Marapira …
All set for 2018 tobacco marketing season Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture ReporterAll is set of the opening of the 2018 tobacco selling season next Wednesday, with the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) expressing satisfaction with the readiness of operators during an inspection of the three licensed floors in Harare yesterday. The TIMB board …
Sadc updates bird flu disaster response plan Harare BureauSOUTHERN African countries, jolted by a debilitating avian influenza outbreak in 2017, which left an extensive effect on the region including in Zimbabwe, have reviewed and updated the regional preparedness and response plan, which is expected to guide management and control of the disease. The region …
Winter wheat hectarage set to increase 20 percent Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business ReporterTHE area planted under winter wheat is expected to increase by at least 20 percent this year from 70 000 hectares last year as the country seeks to restore self-sustenance, an official said yesterday. Over the years, Zimbabwe’s wheat production had declined to …
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