Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Tobacco farmers earn US$9m in 3 days Herald 13/4/2021 Music legend Nicholas ‘Madzibaba’ Zakaria shows off some of his tobacco crop in Mazowe recently Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Farmers have earned US$8,9 million in the first three days of the 2021 tobacco marketing season after selling 3,7 million kg of the crop at the …
Time to devise new tobacco curing fuel Herald 13/4/2021 Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter The land reform programme implemented by the Government of Zimbabwe two decades ago has been a huge success especially in the tobacco sector, where locals have taken the sector to levels where production is almost at par with what white …
Calls for zumbani research Herald 13/4/2021 Ray Bande Senior Reporter Stakeholders have called for local research on the medicinal properties of the fever tea tree, locally known as zumbani. This comes as some of Manicaland’s biggest institutions are conducting research for the purposes of producing tea and throat lozenges from the plant. While the …
Major boost for winter wheat farming Herald 13/4/2021 Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Small-scale farmers with access to irrigation can now move into winter wheat and get an extra crop during the year with the Presidential Inputs Scheme expanded to include winter wheat with about 5 000 hectares likely to be planted in this scheme …
Agric landscape has changed for the better Chronicle 13/4/2021 Mr Paul Zakariya Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter THE land reform exercise, which Government undertook after Independence corrected colonial imbalances in the ownership of the means of production by giving back land to locals who were pushed out from their fertile land by white settlers. Before …
Government to avail land Chronicle 13/4/2021 Dr Anxious Masuka Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE agricultural land backlog stands at over 200 000 and the Government will soon be availing the land to potential beneficiaries once modalities on the land audit are complete, a Cabinet Minister has said. Last year, it was reported that …
FAO recognises farmer-led irrigation as a major contributor to agricultural development 0 April 12, 2021 12:50 PM Buried deep in a long report on water and agriculture by FAO – the flagship state of food and agriculture report of 2020 – there is a really important section, signalling a big shift in mainstream … Source: FAO recognises …
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Statutory Instrument 97 of 2021. Grain Marketing (Control of Sale of Soya Beans) Regulations, 2021
Why are domestic fuel prices on northward trend? 12/4/2021 Since the beginning of the year, on the 5th of every new month, fuel consumers have become accustomed to pump price hikes by the Zimbabwe energy regulator (ZERA). In the current month, the price hikes saw a litre of diesel going up 1.2% in local currency, …
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Milk shortages hit Zimbabwe by Staff reporter 11 Apr 2021 Zimbabwe has been hit by a serious milk shortage, with dairy farmers citing viability challenges emanating from poor producer prices, it has emerged. Zimbabwe Association of Dairy Farmers (ZADF) chairperson Kudzai Chirima told Standardbusiness that prices offered by milk processors to farmers were not viable. …