Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Farmers urged to harvest rain-water Herald 27/1/2020 Mr Kumbirai Nhongo Nesia Mhaka in MBIRE Farmers in ecological regions Four and Five have been urged to practice rain-water harvesting, collecting water on their farms using dams, to improve yields and mitigate the effects of climate change. Rainfall patterns are changing, with rains far more erratic …
VALUE targets 10k goat farmers Chronicle 27/1/2020 The VALUE programme seeks to boost goat production. — Online picture Oliver Kazunga, Acting Business Editor THE European Union-funded Value Chain Alliance for Livestock Upgrading and Empowerment (VALUE) project targets to register 10 000 goat farmers across the country’s dry regions with a view to improve livestock production. …
Dairy sector misses target Sunday mail 26/1/2020 Njabulo Bhebe, Sunday News Reporter THE effects of drought are being felt throughout the farming communities, with the dairy sector having failed to meet its target for last year. According to the Zimbabwe Association of Dairy Farmers (ZADF) the country failed to attain its projected target last year …
Zim’s wheat import bill goes down 26/1/2020 Mr Tafadzwa Musarara Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S wheat import bill is reported to have gone down due to the depressed demand of bread on the local market as most people have been hard hit by low disposal income culminating in them resorting to consume alternative food stuffs. …
Veld management should be cognisant of the changes in farm carrying capacity Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Mhlupheki Dube CLIMATE change has altered two aspects about our rainfall pattern namely the distribution and the amount. The country is experiencing low amount of rainfall that is not evenly distributed. Only a few instances do we get flash …
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Foundation widens school gardens programme Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Sinokuthaba Dube, Sunday News Reporter A HARARE-based youth organisation, 4-H Zimbabwe Foundation has widened its schools’ gardens programme to primary and secondary schools from the initial three provinces covered last year to all provinces in the country. The schools garden programme was introduced in November last year …
Zim to import high yielding pig breeding stock Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Piglets Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Farming Reporter ZIMBABWE will soon import 230 high yielding pig breeding stock from South Africa under a European Union funded Value Chain Alliance for Livestock Upgrading Empowerment (VALUE) project, a move aimed at improving the country’s pork production. Speaking at …
Zesa to ease load shedding . . . US$100m secured for arrears clearance Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi Kuda Bwititi, Harare Bureau Zimbabwe is set to clear its arrears owed to Mozambique and South Africa after securing a US$100-million facility from Afreximbank and revive a 30-year trilateral agreement with the …
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Zimbabwe’s farmers lament: ‘The taxes are just too much’ 3 January 26, 2020 2:00 AM Source: Zimbabwe’s farmers lament: ‘The taxes are just too much’ | News | Al Jazeera Despite food crisis, Zimbabwe fields lie fallow as farmers grapple with drought, hyperinflation and onerous taxes. Zimbabwe’s agricultural minister told officials this week that the country has only …
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Dam Levels as at 21-January-2020 DAM NAME FULL SUPPLY CAPACITY CURRENT CAPACITY % FULL DAILY TREND (millions of cubic metres) (millions of cubic metres) Kariba 64800.00 6129.2 9.5 Tugwi Mukosi 1802.6 692.0 38.4 Mutirikwi 1378.08 503.9 36.6 Manyame 480.23 365.3 76.1 Osborne 401.64 195.9 48.8 Mazvikadei 343.815 265.6 77.3 Manyuchi 309.06 152.5 49.4 Manjirenji 274.17 …