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Zim turns to cloud-seeding 0 January 7, 2018 4:33 PM Source: Zim turns to cloud-seeding | Sunday Mail (Local News) Grace KaerasoraThe Meteorological Services Department is cloud-seeding to mitigate below-normal rainfall during early summer cropping, with Treasury channelling US$400 000 towards the exercise. Two new aircraft are being used in the countrywide programme for which Finance …
Safari operators project 30% growth SAFARI Operators Association of Zimbabwe have projected a 30% growth in revenue in 2018 on the back of the lift on the ivory ban by the United States and the policy thrust of the new government, businessdigest has learnt. By Kudzai Kuwaza The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced …
Resettled farmers drowning in debt By Own Correspondent 90 percent of resettled farmers saddled with debt. AN estimated 90 percent of the country’s resettled farmers have failed to settle their loans with banks, with financial institutions now reluctant to lend, an official said yesterday. “The biggest challenge that the banks face is this big animal …
Shiri targets Mugabe farms – January 5, 2018 NEWLY-APPOINTED Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri has reportedly ordered an investigation into former President Robert Mugabe’s multiple farms with the intention of leaving him with one farm in line with the country’s one farm per family policy. BY EVERSON MUSHAVA The Mugabe family reportedly owns up to 14 …
Zim meat output declines January 5, 2018 Business Business ReporterZimbabwe experienced a substantial decrease in meat production during the third quarter of last year. Official figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, said cattle and pig slaughters were down eight and 10 percent respectively during the third quarter of 2017 from the prior comparable …
Chimene’s corrupt farm allocations exposed January 5, 2018 Local News, MANICALAND & MASH EAST Ms Chimene Mutare BureauZanu-PF officials in Manicaland want Government to review contentious farm allocations made by self-exiled former Minister of State Mandi Chimene. Wenselydale and Wakefield farms in Headlands, which were originally set aside for the establishment of Wenselydale Training Centre and Manicaland State …
Hyenas wreak havoc in Raffingora January 4, 2018 Local News, MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Fortunate Gora CorrespondentSeveral farmers in the Raffingora area of Zvimba District have lost livestock to marauding hyenas. Villagers said the problem has persisted for about six months with the hyenas targeting mostly cattle, goats and sheep. New resettlement areas such as Royal Bucks, Chinwe, …
Youths call for land audit January 4, 2018 Local News, MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Dr Mombeshora Conrad Mupesa CorrespondentZanu-PF youths in Makonde District want fresh land audits conducted under the new dispensation to unearth alleged corruption in the allocation of land. Speaking at a Makonde youth inter-district meeting at Murereka Primary School in Lion’s Den at the weekend, …
Shiri mulls three agric policy initiatives January 4, 2018 Headlines, Top Stories Farirai Machivenyika Senior ReporterGovernment is working on three agricultural policy initiatives to boost productivity and increase the sector’s foreign currency generation. This was disclosed by Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perrance Shiri, while officiating at a horticulture stakeholders’ conference in Harare yesterday. …
Cane farmers joy at Nandi-Mkwasine rail line A train hauls sugar on the Nandi-Mkwasine railway line Pamenus Tuso Beria Madondo is one of the first black farmers to embark on commercial sugarcane production in the Nandi/Mkwasine area in the lowveld. He was among the first 191 black farmers to be allocated pieces of land …