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Restoring wetlands can help combat climate change – NewsDay Zimbabwe By Newsday 2/11/2021 Jane Madgwick DRAIN the swamp! It is an old cry. Swamps are bad lands where malaria breeds, mists settle, tracks disappear, criminals lurk and bad things happen. Bog or mire, morass or swamp, even their names give wetlands a bad reputation. Unlike …
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Seed Co launches employee farming input scheme The Herald 3/11/2021 Panashe Nyamudeza Business Correspondent Seed Co Limited has launched an employee farming input scheme which it believes brings about an opportunity for internal corporate social responsibility and investment. Through the scheme, employers are encouraged to procure crop seeds for their employees either as a Christmas …
Huge potential for Zim to go green The Herald 3/11/2021 Benjamin Chivandire Correspondent It is astonishing that clean energy from the sun has become the cheapest way to generate electricity. With the prices of solar panels having been on free fall over the past 15 years, solar energy is even cheaper than thermal power. Yet, …
Value addition plants key to rural development The Herald 3/11/2021 Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor For a long time value addition has been part of Zimbabwe’s development language, embedded in major economic blue print and both short and long term goals. But slow action and implementation emptied the true meaning of value addition …
Cottco pays farmers $3,1bn for 2021 marketing season The Herald 3/11/2021 Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Cottco has so far paid farmers $3,1 billion for this year’s deliveries with the additional subsidy payments now starting to go out. While most farmers have been paid in full for last year’s crop, the company still needs cotton growers …
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Sanctions, climate change double blow for Zim The Herald 3/11/2021 President Mnangagwa addresses the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. — Picture: Presidential Photographer Joseph Nyadzayo Africa Moyo in GLASGOW, Scotland Climate change has increased the frequency of severe droughts and cyclone-induced floods and with economic sanctions, Zimbabwean lives have been …
Tobacco value chain strategy takes off The Chronicle /113/2021 Industry and Commerce Minister Sekai Nzenza and CEOs Roundtable chair Mr Oswell Binha during the recently held CEOs annual forum in Victoria Falls Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter GOVERNMENT is implementing a tobacco value chain transformation plan, which will promote local processing of the golden leaf …
Zesa improves power generation capacity The Chronicle 3/11/2021 Business Reporter THE country recorded improved power generation in the third quarter ended September 2021 with the Kariba Hydro-Power Station dominating the contribution to the national grid. According to the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) report for the period under review, there was a general improvement in electricity …
Covid-19 lockdown gets another extension The Chronicle 3/11/2021 Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday extended the Covid-19 induced level two national lockdown by another two weeks. He also said vaccination centres are required to commence vaccinating the 16-17-year age group with immediate effect after the Government extended the exercise to the …
Identify and remove corrupt individuals from Lands Department The Chronicle 3/11/2021 THE Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa frowns upon corrupt activities and has on many occasions said that there will be no room for graft under its watch. It is against this background that reported corrupt activities in the Department of Lands in the …
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