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Zim faces early winter By ZimSitRep_M | March 19, 2017 0 Comment Source: Zim faces early winter – DailyNews Live Helen Kadirire 17 March 2017 HARARE – Zimbabwe faces an early winter as temperatures are graduallydecreasing, the Meteorological Services Department (Met) said yesterday. The department’s public weather services head, Tich Zinyemba, said “eventhough it is early days yet, there …
Zim must learn to value its farmers By ZimSitRep_M | March 19, 2017 0 Comment Source: Zim must learn to value its farmers – DailyNews Live 18 March 2017 HARARE – The treatment of tobacco farmers in the past few days by buyershas brought to the fore issues of how farmers across the country aretreated as second-class citizens. Tobacco farmers …
Mnangagwa’s $500m scheme raises eyebrows March 19, 2017 in Local, News Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s much trumpeted $500 million command agriculture scheme is a monumental failure and could leave the government saddled with debts running into millions, data made available to this paper has revealed. BY XOLISANI NCUBE/OBEY MANAYITI Vice prseident Emmerson Mnangagwa The government has stepped up propaganda …
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Layer chicken industry depressed on back of turbulent egg market March 17, 2017 in Business THE layer chicken industry in Zimbabwe was depressed on the back of a turbulent egg market, an industry official has said. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI In an industry update, Zimbabwe Poultry Association chairperson Solomon Zawe said layer breeder stocks in 2016 were slightly …
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Sadc weather experts meet in Harare March 17, 2017 in News Southern African Development Community (Sadc) experts from meteorological services, civil protection authorities and water authorities met in Harare yesterday to discuss security and environmental issues affecting the continent. BY OBEY MANAYITI The meeting was part of the joint African Union (AU)-European Union (EU) initiative designed to …
Optimism as tobacco selling season opens March 17, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Macheke farmer Jonathan Chatiza (centre), his wife Ndaizivei Gwere (left) and their daughter Pauline take a look at the tobacco crop at the official opening of the tobacco selling season at Boka Auction Floors in Harare on Wednesday. — Picture by Justin Mutenda …
Illegal logging threatens Zim forests March 17, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Indiscriminate cutting down of trees is rampant in Zimbabwe Sifelani TsikoIn the heart of Zimbabwe’s third largest state forest, Mafungabusi in the central part of the country, a soccer pitch has been carved out and a row of shops built with farm bricks, timber …
Day 1 tobacco sales rake in $423 000 March 17, 2017 Local News Zvamaida Murwira Senior ReporterAt least $422 729 worth of tobacco weighing 191 891 kilogrammes was sold on the first day of the marketing season on Wednesday, according to figures released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board. The average price for the three auction …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Tobacco growers must invest more in value addition March 17, 2017 Opinion & Analysis Minister Joseph Made The tobacco marketing season opened on Wednesday at the three auction floors in Harare with the contracted crop going on sale yesterday. About 1 000 bales were expected to go under the hammer at Boka Tobacco Auction …
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Tobacco farmers improvise amid coal shortages March 17, 2017 Business Minister Walter Chidhakwa Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau ChiefTOBACCO growers have been forced to improvise in their curing processes as the country faces a shortage of coal because of flooded coal mines in Hwange, an official has said. Some farmers have resorted to using firewood, which has been …