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GMB stocks 1m tonnes of grain The Herald George Maponga Masvingo Bureau The Grain Marketing Board now has more than one million tonnes of grain in stock, amid hope that the figure will double by the end of August as farmers intensify deliveries to the national grain buyer following a successful 2017 /18 farming …
Wheat farmers send out equipment SOS The Herald Manicaland Correspondents Wheat farmers in Manicaland want authorities to assist them with equipment to harvest their crop, which is ripening, in order to reduce losses. Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union (ZFU) Manicaland provincial manager Mr Daniel Mungazi told The Herald that most of the early planted wheat crop …
Schweppes to venture in oranges production A man harvests oranges at a plantation recently The Herald Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterSchweppes Zimbabwe Ltd intends to venture into production of oranges as the company seeks to boost feedstock for its juice processing plant in Beitbridge, according to the group’s chief executive. Schweppes currently gets oranges …
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: When age is nothing but just a number EDITOR — Godfrey Chipoyera (17) is an emerging entrepreneur who is into poultry farming. He rears different types of birds including broilers, guinea fowls, turkeys and free range indigenous chickens commonly referred to as ‘road runners.’ Chipoyera is a Lower Sixth student …
Tobacco marketing season ends | The Chronicle Dr Andrew Matibiri Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business ReporterTHE 2018 tobacco marketing season has come to an end after auction floors closed last Friday while contract sales will continue until further notice, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has announced. This year’s selling season, which began on March …
Forests suffer amid tobacco record-breaking euphoria This year farmers destroyed a total of almost 60,000 hectares gathering wood to cure tobacco. In 2016, that figure hovered around 50,000ha Climate Story Jeffrey Gogo“We aren’t really concerned about planting trees,” says one smallholder tobacco farmer — whom we shall call Jessica — from the Headlands. Jessica lives …
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Record tobacco sales mask declining crop productivity THE state media went to town this week, hailing the record 238 million kg of tobacco sold as at July 23 in this current but soon-to-close tobacco marketing season, which is an improvement on the 237 million kg delivered in 2000. The Brett Chulu Column Space does not …
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Government hunts for tobacco alternative In the region, Zimbabwe is the largest producer of tobacco. AS international pressure on the ban on tobacco growing and tobacco use mounts, government has called on farmers to come up with an alternative crop that is capable of ensuring the same economic benefits as tobacco.Anti-tobacco lobbyists have been pushing …
Cotton farmers bemoan erratic rains The Herald Midlands Correspondent Cotton farmers in Gokwe said erratic rains that characterised the cotton farming season affected their targeted yield. In an interview, farmers said they could have had a bumper harvest, if the rains were consistent. Mr James Bagu, the village head for Bagu Village under Chief Mkoka, …
Nust lecturer makes record $24 000 bull sale Dr Themba Dlodlo with his prize bull (picture from ICT in Agriculture) Business ReporterPROMINENT Esigodini farmer and National University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer, Dr Themba Dlodlo, made history this week when his pedigree bull fetched the most expensive beast price of $24 000 at a …