Category: Agriculture (archives)

GMB moisture content limit spawns dealers •Farmers lose millions to illegal traders •Govt input schemes under threat June 21, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories GMB silos Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau—A two-tier black market system has emerged outside most Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide where grain rejected for moisture content in excess of the accepted 12,5 percent threshold …

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GMB farmers’ database: Let’s avoid cotton sector scenario June 20, 2017 Business Obert Chifamba Agri-InsightIN a surprising develiopment, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) recently issued a communique on grain deliveries for the 2017 /18 season in which it addresses a number of important matters that usually make life less palatable for farmers and the generality of Zimbabweans.Of …

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Mkwasine farmers want alternative miller June 20, 2017 Local News Minister Bimha Tawanda Mangoma in CHIREDZISugarcane farmers in Mkwasine have threatened to switch to other cash crops if Government fails to intervene by finding an alternative miller to Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe, which they say is giving them a raw deal.Addressing Chiredzi Press Club on Friday last …

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Avian Influenza: Govt remains on high alert June 20, 2017 Local News Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture ReporterGovernment is in the process of mounting a risk based survey of the wild bird population to establish possible primary source of the Avian Influenza, with an external international specialist support team expected in the country this week for backup services. This …

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Communal farmers major food producers June 20, 2017 Local News Elita Chikwati, Harare BureauCommunal farmers are leading in maize production for the 2016/17 farming season, as their output increased by 364 percent. According to the final crop and livestock assessment report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, communal farmers increased their yield with …

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Zimbabwe to import beef from Namibia June 16, 2017 in Agriculture, Business, News, Politics LIVESTOCK farming is now in dire straits, with Zimbabwe looking to import beef from Namibia as the country’s national herd has been severely depleted due to droughts and the foot and mouth disease. Wongai Zhangazha This was revealed in minutes of Namibia cabinet resolutions issued at …

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Call for crackdown on unscrupulous private cotton firms June 19, 2017 Business Cottco workers tie cotton lint at Muzarabani Ginnery last week Business ReporterFARMER organisations have called for a crackdown on unscrupulous private cotton companies paying spot cash to entice farmers to side-market the crop contracted by Government. The private companies have also increased the money …

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Chief warns against ‘sweet-talking’ grain merchants June 19, 2017 Local News Tawanda Mangoma in CHIREDZIChief Tshovani of Chiredzi has criticised grain buyers who have invaded his area and are enticing villagers to go for the low prices they offer because they are buying in cash. Speaking after a tour of his 65-hectare plot which is under sorghum …

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Zim to harvest 4m tonnes food crops June 19, 2017 Local News Dr Made Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter—Zimbabwe is expecting to harvest four million tonnes of food crops from the 2016-17 agricultural season, the final Government-sponsored crop and livestock assessment report has revealed. This means the country will have a surplus of one million tonnes of food …

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Command Agric charms Sadc June 19, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories Dr Mbambo Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau—Zimbabwe’s successful Command Agriculture Programme is panacea to hunger and poverty in Africa if replicated by countries facing external threats such as economic sanctions, visiting Namibian provincial governor Ambassador Dr Samuel Kaveto Mbambo has said. Dr Mbambo, the governor for Kavango East, said Zimbabwe had …

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