Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Bread shortages loom – NewsDay Zimbabwe newsday GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has warned that the country faces imminent bread shortages if millers do not get an urgent allocation of forex to import wheat, as there is only three weeks’ supply left. BY FREEMAN MAKOPA In an urgent letter to the Reserve Bank of …
Tongwe Irrigation Scheme brings more smiles, cash to villagers newsday ELIKANAH Muleya (53) has a 0,4 hectare plot at Tongwe Irrigation Scheme, some 40km north-west of Beitbridge town. BY OWN CORRESPONDENT It draws water by gravitation from Tongwe Dam, a man-made oasis in the middle of a dry area. Along with 74 other plot-holders, Muleya, …
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Youth in the driving seat of agricultural revolution The Herald Ali Said CorrespondentYouths face many structural, financial, technological and knowledge barriers to participate in agriculture. In some cases, the youths have challenges accessing land while those that have pieces of land and produce struggle to find viable markets for the produce whether crop or …
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Command Agric not permanent: Shiri The Herald Tawanda Musarurwa Senior Business ReporterZimbabwe’s successful agro-import substitution programme, Command Agriculture, will not be a permanent feature and will be phased out once Government is convinced farmers can now mobilise own funding, the Minister of Lands Agriculture and Resettlement Perrance Shiri has said. He said the programme …
Sand poachers risk $5000 EMA fine Whinsley Masara, Chronicle ReporterTHE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has raised concern over continued illegal sand abstraction and land degradation in Bulawayo. EMA singled out Cowdray Park and Pumula suburbs and the Bulawayo City Council’s Mazwi Farm as the worst affected parts in Bulawayo. The authority’s Provincial Environmental Manager, …
Cold spell to continue | The Chronicle Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle ReporterTHE cold spell being experienced in the country yesterday saw temperatures dropping to minus four degrees Celsius at the Matopos while ground frost has been projected in some parts of the country, the Meteorological Department has said. The department also forecast the cold spell …
Farmers miss deadlines for wheat planting FARMERS have missed the May 15, 2018 winter wheat planting deadline as well as its extension to May 31, raising fears that the country will need to import more wheat in 2019.The missed deadlines mean that wheat production for 2018 has been compromised because planting after May results …
Move to commercial cropping, villagers urged newsday COMMUNAL farmers should migrate from subsistence to commercial cropping to improve their financial status, a senior Agritex official said yesterday. BY OWN CORRESPONDENT Speaking to farmers at a field day at Tongwe Irrigation Scheme yesterday, Chenjemulene Madzivanyika said cash cropping enabled farmers to provide for their families. “We …
Equipping marginalised farmers for impact of globalisation The Herald Charles DhewaAlthough digital technology is beginning to show potential for increasing the impact of individual knowledge, in most African marginalised communities, community knowledge will remain important for a long time. Unfortunately, many development interventions are meddling with African communities’ capacity to make sense of knowledge. …
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Firm accused of side marketing Govt contracted cotton The Herald Local ginning company Alliance Ginneries on Tuesday failed to provide Parliament with evidence that it contracted farmers to grow cotton and yet it was on the ground buying the crop in the Gokwe area of the Midlands province. The company was responding to accusations …
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