Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
GMB in storage dilemma. . . Only 3 out of 12 silo depots functional February 8, 2017 Local News One of the GMB depots Elita Chikwati, Harare BureauTHE Grain Marketing Board has only three functional silo depots out of the 12 storage facilities countrywide, as preparations for the intake of the summer crops have started. The GMB …
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5 missing, presumed dead after floods February 8, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories The truck that was swept away by the flooded Bubi River last week Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle ReporterFIVE people are missing after they were swept away by floods in two separate incidents in Matabeleland South province last week. The Civil Protection Unit said it was worrying that …
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This season’s heavy rains ITCZ-induced: Experts February 7, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Sifelani Tsiko —Could the recent storms and floods that have affected most of the country resulting in damage and widespread, persistent flooding surpass the scale of the Cyclone Eline-induced floods of the 1999–2000 era which were the worst in the living memory of …
EDITORIAL COMMENT February 7, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Command Agric: Stitch in time saves nine By our layman’s estimate, Zimbabwe seems to have received far above average rainfall this cropping season, and it is still raining. This should be great news for a nation still smarting from a crippling drought last year, which ravaged the …
Region to meet over fall armyworm February 7, 2017 Business Armyworm Business Reporter ZIMBABWE will join its regional counterparts for a meeting planned for next week to map strategies aimed at containing the spread of the fall armyworm pest, which threatens prospects of a good maize harvest for the country and region this season.A fall armyworm …
‘Factory farming’ comes to town February 7, 2017 Business Obert Chifamba: Agric-InsightWhen I first bumped into the phrase “factory farming” I couldn’t help but imagine farmers doing all sorts of farming activities within the precincts of a factory, yet this wasn’t the case exactly. And, as I later realised, I hadn’t missed the target by miles in my …
Shaming detractors: Minister leads by example in command agriculture February 7, 2017 Opinion & Analysis Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister (responsible for cropping), Davis Marapira (left), shows one of the bulls at his farm. Walter Mswazie, Features CorrespondentWHEN the Government introduced the command agriculture scheme at the beginning of the 2016-2017 farming season to address …
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Let’s manage soil, rainwater better February 6, 2017 Business Jeffrey Gogo Climate StoryMedicine Dambakurima is relieved the rains took a sustained break in the last week for the first time in two months. Too much rain in the flood-prone lands of Dambakurima Village, Muzarabani, had risked severe crop losses, much worse a repeat of last summer’s …
Water key for Command Agriculture February 6, 2017 Business Bumper Harvest with Conrad MwanawasheTHE expansion of Command Agriculture to include soya beans and wheat in the coming seasons brings to the fore a number of new issues that Government and its partners in the private sector should consider. Such issues range from the availability of inputs …