Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Sport activities resume, restaurants re-open Herald 17/3/2021 Minister Mutsvangwa Farirai Machivenyika and Rumbidzayi Zinyuke All sporting activities will resume with immediate effect after Cabinet further relaxed Covid-19 lockdown measures yesterday. Restaurants will also be allowed to cater for sit-in customers but at only 50 percent capacity. The measures were announced by Information, Publicity and …
Why your company needs a shareholders’ agreement Herald 17/3/2021 Jacob Mutevedzi Launching a business can be so exciting that it is difficult to imagine that anything might go wrong. This is especially the case if one is venturing into business with loved ones. Despite our best wishes, business relationships, just like marriages, tend to …
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Direct property investments ‘a risky bet’ Herald 17/3/2021 Tawanda Musarurwa Senior Business Reporter Investors eyeing real estate portfolios are better off investing in listed property or real estate investment trusts (REITs) as returns from direct property investments have been weakened by current inflationary pressures, experts say. The local property sector has generally lagged exchange …
Presidential inputs scheme surpasses target Herald 17/3/2021 Dr Basera Enacy Mapakame Business Reporter The Presidential Inputs Support Scheme surpassed the 2020/21 target, contributing to the timely start to the season that is anticipated to bring a bumper harvest. According to Agriculture Technical and Extension Services (Agritex) acting director Mr Stancilae Tapererwa, Government was targeting …
Households in Zimbabwe affected by fall armyworm are 12% more likely to experience hunger 0 March 16, 2021 2:31 PM Source: Households in Zimbabwe affected by fall armyworm are 12% more likely to experience hunger Zimbabwe smallholder maize-growing households blighted by fall armyworm are 12% more likely to experience hunger. Credit: CABI CABI has led the first …
Locusts destroy Chilonga villagers’ crops – NewsDay Zimbabwe NewsDay 16/3/2021 BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA It never rains but pours for Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi, who after being threatened with eviction to pave way for a lucerne production project, also face hunger after their grain crops were destroyed by locusts over the past three weeks The Shangaan …
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Unforeseen opportunities for urban farmers Herald 16/3/2021 Most the farmers now have very good looking crops, especially maize at various stages of growth with most angling towards ripening Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight WHEN the coronavirus pandemic reached our shores early last year, it infused a sense of hopelessness into all spheres of life in which …
Call for simplified export procedures 16 MAR, 2021 – 00:03 0 COMMENTS 1 IMAGES Mr Busisa Moyo Golden Sibanda, Harare Bureau THE Government has been called to simplify export procedures to refocus local producers to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which opens a 1,3 billion people market. Bulawayo-based industrialist who is …
Agro-industrial group’s revenue up 73 percent in Q1 Chronicle 16/3/2021 AGRO-INDUSTRIAL group, CFI Holdings, says it recorded a 73.2 percent revenue surge in the first quarter ended December 2020, with its retail operations contributing 96 percent to turnover. “Sales volumes in the key revenue drivers for the retail business improved during the quarter,” the …
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Nature-based solution to disaster risk reduction Chronicle 16/3/2021 Fortunes Matutu Zimbabwe has increasingly become prone to natural disasters such as cyclones, drought, inclement weather and whirl winds, most of them attributable to climate change. In previous years, many people lost their lives, had their property destroyed and livelihoods affected because of these disasters. In …
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