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Tobacco exports rake in $270m June 30, 2015 Business Oliver Kazunga Senior Business ReporterTHE country has earned over $270 million from 49.4 million kilogrammes of tobacco exported since the beginning of the year compared to 38.8 million kg during the same period last year. During the comparable period, $141.2 million was earned on flue-cured tobacco exports. …
Zim loses 60pc real value in raw tobacco exports July 1, 2015 Business Tobacco bales Oliver Kazunga Senior Business ReporterZIMBABWE is losing at least 60 percent real value through raw tobacco exports, economic experts said yesterday amid heightened calls for the speedy setting up of local processing firms. While statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing …
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Pastures deteriorating fast in Mat South June 27, 2015 Top Stories Marvelous Moyo Gwanda CorrespondentPASTURES are fast deteriorating in Matabeleland South due to the poor rainfalls received in the country’s drought-prone province this year. In an interview yesterday, the province’s chief livestock specialist, Simangaliphi Ngwabi, said the veld situation was getting worse in Matabeleland South as the grazing …
FAO rescues govt June 29, 2015 in National, News The government’s plans to consolidate its land policy have received a major boost after the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) offered to fund the exercise to the tune of $500 million, Lands and Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora has revealed. BY Fidelity Mhlanga/Elizabeth Dumbreni Mombeshora told delegates attending a …
SOS to save Mat’land cattle Paddy Zhanda THE government has appealed to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to assist livestock farmers in Matabeleland with stockfeed to avert cattle deaths caused by lack of pastures owing to the prevailing drought. BY NQOBANI NDLOVU Agriculture deputy minister (Livestock) Paddy Zhanda recently admitted that thousands of …
Shurugwi embarks on small grains project Communities in parts of Shurugwi have embarked on a small grains project aimed at creating a food safety net in the drought-prone district. By Stephen Chadenga At least 400 families in wards 1, 8, 13 and 14 have benefited from small grains such as red and white sorghum, …
Boran breed the way to go by Robin Chaibva | Sunday, Jun 28, 2015 | 184 views Mr Musolini Ganyo shows some of his Boran Breed cattle at his Panganai Kurima Farm in Hwedza last week. Farmers who have been traditionally producing food and cash crops should also consider engaging in livestock production as a way of …
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE OUTBREAK IN ZIMBABWE JUNE 2015 A NATIONAL CRISIS/EMERGENCY Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is the most contagious disease known to cattle. It is a trans-boundary animal disease caused by a virus and affects all cloven hoofed animals. It is highly infectious and spreads exceedingly rapidly in cattle and …
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Govt requires $10bn to increase irrigation area June 26, 2015 Business Government has crafted a ‘comprehensive’ irrigation development blueprint that will require $10 billion over the next 25 years to implement, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made has said. Dr Made told the just ended Water Conference that the phased master plan is …
Livestock production declines June 26, 2015 Local News Elita Chikwati Agriculture ReporterZimbabwe slaughtered 284 000 animals in 2014, a sharp decline from the 600 000 it used to slaughter when it was exporting beef. The country last exported its beef to the European Union in 2001 before the exports were suspended because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth …