Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Farmers bemoan late Command Agric inputs November 21, 2017 MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Mash West BureauFARMERS in Mashonaland West Province are not happy with Agritex officers, whom they are accusing of frustrating them by delaying the distribution of Command Agriculture inputs as well as creating complications in the signing of contracts. For the greater part of …
Padenga 40pc shy of expected annual production target November 21, 2017 Business Padenga Holdings (Padenga), is 40 percent shy of its annual production target, two months away from the company’s financial year end Taurai Mangudhla Senior Business ReporterZimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed crocodilian skins and meat producer, Padenga Holdings (Padenga), is 40 percent shy of its annual …
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1,2m households receive maize seed November 21, 2017 Local News Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture ReporterThe distribution of inputs under the Presidential Well Wishers Agriculture Inputs Scheme (PWAIS) is going on smoothly with more than 1,2 million households across the country having received maize and small grains seed, a Cabinet Minister has said. The Presidential Well-Wishers Agriculture Inputs Scheme …
Farmers beef up livestock breeding skills November 21, 2017 Local News George Maponga Masvingo BureauMore than 200 A1 and A2 Zvishavane farmers have undergone a livestock rearing and breeding training programme that is expected to add value to their farming business. The training was organised by National Foods (Natfoods) and saw trainees receiving skills from experts in poultry, …
Govt warns fertiliser firms over prices November 21, 2017 Local News Deputy Minister Marapira Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Bureau—GOVERNMENT has warned fertiliser companies who benefited from the $56 million credit facility opened by Government through African-Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to support imports of fertiliser for the 2017/18 cropping season against unscrupulously increasing prices of the commodity. Fertiliser prices …
Mash West farmers start planting November 20, 2017 MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Mash West BureauTHOUSANDS of farmers in Mashonaland West and Central provinces have taken advantage of rains to start planting. Although irrigation farmers had started early September, rain-fed farming started in earnest last week in Makonde, Kariba, Guruve, Mazowe, Mhondoro, Bindura, Zvimba, Mhangura, Shamva, …
www.chronicle.co.zw 30 000t AN fertiliser sent to farmers Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Midlands CorrespondentTHE country’s sole manufacturer of ammonium nitrate (AN), Sable Chemical Industries, has released 30 000 tonnes of AN to the market to ease fertiliser shortages. This comes after Government conceded it has failed to distribute farming inputs to farmers under the Presidential …
RBZ doubles export incentive for tobacco farmers to 12,5pct 0 November 18, 2017 9:25 AM HARARE, November 17 (The Source) – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will pay tobacco farmers an export incentive of 12,5 percent up from 5 percent, in a bid to spur production in the upcoming 2018 farming …
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Horticulture export market boom for Zimbabwe November 16, 2017By Shame Makoshori, Senior Business Reporter There has been a boom in peas demand in Malaysia SIGNIFICANT markets for horticultural exports have opened up in the South East Asian frontier, the country’s export trade promotion body, ZimTrade, said last week.In its newsletter for October, ZimTrade said there had …
Maize price drops 50pc | The Financial Gazette By Staff Reporter The prize of maize has declined by 50 percent. STAPLE maize prices dropped by half between September last year and September this year owing to improved maize supplies, according to the latest figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Despite a …