Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s major forex earner under threat – The Financial Gazette Tabitha Mutenga Features Editor 4/10/2018 Zimbabwe’s tobacco output is expected to increase from the current 252 million kilogrammes based on the increase in hectarage and registered growers. TOBACCO, Zimbabwe’s largest foreign currency earner, is under threat as uncontrollable pests and diseases have invaded fields, Dahlia …
Hippo Valley assures of sweet times ahead – NewsDay Zimbabwe 5/10/2018 Sugar milling company Hippo Valley achieved an operating profit of $17 million for the year ended March 31, 2018, up from $13,4 million in the prior year. Sydney Mutsambiwa This was buoyed by continued growth in local market sales assisted by the refineries …
Govt to fund cattle farmers The Herald 5/10/2018 Manicaland Correspondent CATTLE farmers in Manicaland will soon receive funding from Government to acquire beasts for breeding under the Command Livestock programme. For the past two years, farmers in the province have only taken up crops such as maize, wheat and soya bean under the …
Chisema laments land degradation The Herald 5/10/2018 Tawanda Mangoma in Chiredzi Chiredzi district administrator Mr Lovemore Chisema has lamented rampant land degradation in resettlement areas across the district and attributed it to poor farming methods. Mr Chisema said land degradation was fuelling siltation of rivers and dams in the district where irrigation was …
Farmers urged to use moisture techniques The Herald 5/10/2018 Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau TOBACCO farmers have been urged to intensively employ moisture preservation techniques this season as part of efforts to produce a good crop in light of the forecast low rainfall pattern. Zimbabwe is expected to receive normal to below normal rainfall …
Cold spell to continue The Chronicle 5/10/2018 Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent THE cold spell being experienced in most parts of the country is a result of dropping of temperatures in South Africa and may prevail until tomorrow, the Meteorological Services Department said yesterday. Most parts of the country yesterday experienced cold weather that is …
Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction on course The Chronicle 5/10/2018 Leonard Ncube in Hwange CONSTRUCTION of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North is well on course with 34 percent of work done and the contractor hopeful to meet the December 2019 target for completion. This follows allocation of $23.33 million by Treasury in the 2018 …
Cold weather affects goat rearing The Herald 3/10/2018 Emmah Chinyamutangira Mutare Correspondent POOR husbandry practices and cold weather in some of Manicaland’s rural and high veld areas have negatively affected efforts to increase goat production in the province, an official has said. This was revealed by director livestock and pastures research in the Department of …
‘Give Command Soyabeans farmers technical support’ The Herald 3/10/2018 Midlands Correspondent An expert in soyabean production, processing and marketing has called for urgent technical support to farmers who have been contracted under the Command Soyabeans programme in order to realise food security, sustainable agricultural production and the whole indigenisation and empowerment agenda. Soyabean …
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Govt amends mbanje-growing regulations – NewsDay Zimbabwe 2/10/2018 GOVERNMENT has gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI 178/2018) to facilitate amendment of the Dangerous Drugs (Production of Cannabis for Medicinal and Scientific Use) SI 62/2018 by cutting the application fee for production of cannabis from the previous $50 000 to $10 000. BY VENERANDA LANGA The SI, …