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Met dept monitors Cyclone Eloise Chronicle 19/1/2021 Harare Bureau The fifth tropical storm of the season for the southwest Indian Ocean, Eloise, was yesterday starting to reach the northern tip of Madagascar and could swing down the Mozambique Channel from Thursday, reaching southern Mozambique by the weekend and then moving into Zimbabwe, but no …
‘The land is the economy, the economy is the land’, but does this include young people? Reflections from Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Situation 7-8 minutes There has been a flurry of studies on young people and agriculture in recent years, including in Zimbabwe. The wider critical literature has challenged the standard narratives around youth specific policy …
The ‘perfect’ rhino crime: Locals work in cahoots with poachers Standard 17/1/2021 news in depth: BY OSCAR NKALAZimbabwean police officer Sergeant Tawanda Kwaramba drove from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls on September 16, 2019, on a mission to undermine the law he had sworn to uphold. In Victoria Falls he loaded seven Chinese nationals into a …
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China’s imports of African agric products still flourishing Herald 18/1/2021 China’s imports of agricultural products from African countries expanded 4,4 percent China’s imports of agricultural products from African countries expanded 4,4 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2020, marking four consecutive years of positive growth, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC). In …
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Zim braces for locusts threat Chronicle 18/1/2021 Locusts Sifelani Tsiko Agric Editor Resources have been mobilised to minimise the effects of any invasion of the African migratory locust from Botswana and Namibia where outbreaks have been reported. Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head of the Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Research Services Institute yesterday said there was …
Government to repossess underutilised land Chronicle 18/1/2021 Dr Anxious Masuka Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irrigation schemes who fail to revive and …
Met Dept warns of ‘seven-day destructive rains’ Chronicle 18/1/2021 Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter THE Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has predicted heavy and destructive rains for a seven-day period across the country until Wednesday. The rains started on Thursday spreading across most parts of the country yesterday. Since the start of the rainy season in …
Inyathi farmer in thriving Boer goat breeding project Chronicle 18/1/2021 Part of Xolisani Mpofu’s herd of Boer goats in Inyathi Mashudu Netsianda/Bridget Sibanda, Chronicle Reporters WHEN Mr Xolisani Mpofu imported a couple of Boer bucks from North West province in South Africa a few years ago, little did he know that three years later …
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Covid-19 home remedies gain popularity Chronicle 18/1/2021 Ginger, garlic and lemon Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Health Reporter TRADITIONAL herbs and steaming have become popular home remedies against Covid-19 which has killed 772 people in Zimbabwe. Social media platforms are daily awash with messages on the efficacy of Covid-19 home remedies such as steaming with Umsuzwane/Zumbane, guava, …
Trendy healthy food packages way to go Sunday Mail 17/1/2021 The outbreak of Covid-19 has created huge demand for healthy foods, thus creating an opportunity at industry level to produce and trade in these immune boosting diets Trade Focus Allan Majuru THE current messages circulating on social media encouraging Zimbabweans to drink green tea …