Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Low tariffs bleed Zesa Herald 24/9/2020 Fungi Kwaramba Political Editor DELAYS in reviewing electricity tariffs to be cost reflective have left the country’s power utility ZESA in huge debt and threatening to bring back power cuts that had become a thing of the past. Already, suppliers of coal are threatening to stop supplies owing …
Ex-farm workers deserve compensation: War vets By Newsday.Co.Zw – September 23, 2020 BY SILAS NKALA WAR veterans and labour activists have urged government to channel part of the US$3,5 billion meant to compensate white former commercial farmers towards ex-farm workers who lost their sources of livelihood and property during the chaotic land reform programme. A recent United …
Piggery project changes lives Herald 23/9/2020 Minister Monica Mavhunga Fungai Lupande Mashonaland Central Bureau At least 42 families in Bindura have benefited from a piggery project sponsored by South Korea and managed by the Pig Industry Board of Zimbabwe, to improve the quality of pork products in the country and building capacity for small …
Mashonaland East targets 20 000ha irrigated tobacco Herald 23/9/2020 Rutendo Rori Correspondent Farmers in Mashonaland East have started transplanting irrigated tobacco, with the province targeting 20 000 hectares. This was said by provincial Agricultural Extension Services officer Mr Leonard Munamati. Farmers, he said, had so far established seedbeds that could cover 12 000 hectares. …
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Farmers go a gear up as seed uptake increases Herald 23/9/2020 Ivan Craig Agriculture Reporter The uptake of inputs, particularly seed, has increased as preparations for the forthcoming summer cropping season intensify. Beneficiaries of Government input schemes and the banks’ sponsored Command Agriculture have begun receiving inputs while self-financed farmers are busy procuring seed …
Hwange tourism players form conservation association Chronicle 23/9/2020 A tourist takes to the dance floor as traditional dance group, Pezhuba Pachena entertains visitors at the Hwange National Park Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter PLAYERS in the tourism sector around Hwange National Park have formed an association aimed at promoting sustainable conservation and marketing “Destination …
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Govt committed to Bulawayo Kraal development Chronicle 23/9/2020 Bulawayo Kraal overnight water storage dam. Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter THE rate with which Government is moving in implementing works at the Bulawayo Kraal Irrigation Scheme in Binga District, reflects the serious approach to development and commitment towards creating employment and alleviating poverty through transforming the …
Indigenisation law ill-conceived: Zanu PF 1 September 22, 2020 8:25 AM Source: Indigenisation law ill-conceived: Zanu PF | Newsday (News) BY BLESSED MHLANGA GOVERNMENT rolled out an ill-conceived indigenisation policy for political expediency during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era, Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has said. Addressing journalists at the party headquarters in Harare …
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe’s land reform disaster? 3 September 22, 2020 9:17 AM Britain, not Zimbabwe, must pay for colonial land grabs. Source: Who is to blame for Zimbabwe’s land reform disaster? | Colonialism | Al Jazeera Corn fields are harvested at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images] On August …
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Lock-down order amendments 23/9/2020 BILL WATCH 61/2020 Source: Lock-down order amendments – The Zimbabwean The Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lock-down), Order was consolidated and republished on the 20th August, and we explained its effect in our Bill Watch 57/2020 [link]. Since then the new Order has been amended three times, by SI 208/2020 [link], SI 216/2020 [link] and SI …