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Tobacco marketing season kicks off National Report March 16, 2017By Tabitha Mutenga, Features and Supplements Editor Buyers and farmers at the Tobacco Sales Floor in Harare. THE 2017 tobacco marketing season kicked off yesterday with the official opening at Boka Tobacco Floors marking the beginning of auction sales.Three auction floors, Tobacco Sales Floor, Premier Tobacco Auction …
Tobacco output remains flat, prices seen depressed National Report March 14, 2017By Own Correspondent The tobacco buying season opens on tomorrow with sales four auction floors, Premier Tobacco, Boka Tobacco, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premium Tobacco Zimbabwe. TOBACCO output for 2016/17 season is expected to remain flat at 202 million kgs, similar to the previous season …
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Tobacco electronic marketing in false start March 16, 2017 in Business The much-hyped electronic tobacco auctioning got off to a false start yesterday due to technical glitches, forcing auction floors to revert to the manual system at the launch of the 2017 selling season. BY TARISAI MANDIZHA Farmers at the start of the tobacco marketing season at …
Irrigation schemes collapse as govt fails to disburse funds March 16, 2017 in News THE Department of Irrigation Development has said late disbursement of its budgetary allocations by Treasury has resulted in most irrigable land in the country lying idle. By VENERANDA LANGA/KENNETH NYANGANI A 2016 audit report by Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri on the management of …
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Unlocking new sources of agricultural markets March 16, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis If we continue focusing on the local market we are just shifting models – from supporting tomatoes to cabbages to butternuts to sweet potatoes to livestock to onions to maize to tobacco. That way, it is impossible to realise the full growth potential …
E-marketing’s appropriateness March 16, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Yvonne MutavaThe 2017 tobacco marketing season started yesterday on the auction floors and only commences today on the contract floors, and this is for a reason. The reason for the contract floors starting a day later is the price matrix which is generated on the auction floors. …
Government to open farming depots March 16, 2017 Business Dr Joseph Made Government will open satellite depots near farming areas for buying grain and cotton to save farmers from travelling long distances to deliver their produce, a Cabinet minister has said.The Government, which buys grain through the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), will purchase grain at $390 …
Floods threat recedes March 16, 2017 Local News Tanaka Vunganayi Herald ReporterThere will be no further flooding expected in Zimbabwe, with the rains having receded as the rainy season approaches its end, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) said yesterday.MSD senior forecaster Mr Tich Zinyemba told The Herald that rains had cooled off throughout the country. “We are …
Tobacco selling season opens on high note March 16, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories Dr Made Zvamaida Murwira and Runyararo Muzavazi—The 2017 tobacco selling season opened on a high note yesterday, with the opening price pegged at $4.60 per kilogramme amid high expectations from stakeholders that the price would continue firming as marketing progresses on the back of …
Hard working Insiza Irrigation farmers rewarded March 16, 2017 Opinion & Analysis Mr Mikayeli Sidambe, chairperson of the Amazon Irrigation Scheme, signs a certificate of project completion at the scheme recently as other members look on Tapfuma MachakaireAround mid-morning on one Friday, the normally quiet bushy area 20 kilometres just off the Mbalabala-Zvishavane highway reverberated with …