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New tobacco curing system unveiled April 16, 2015 Business Harare BureauCarbon Green Investment (CGI), a United Kingdom-based company specialising in conservation and carbon credit management in Zimbabwe, has unveiled new technology that reduces the costs of curing tobacco. The rocket barn solar fan was launched last Friday for the first time in Zimbabwe during a tobacco field day …
Cattle restocking programme to be rolled out April 16, 2015 Local News Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls ReporterTHE government has embarked on a national cattle restocking programme aimed at increasing household income and rebuilding the national herd. The programme will also provide food security through commercialisation of small holder farmers. Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development responsible for livestock, …
Matabeleland cattle sales suspended April 16, 2015 Local News Pamela Shumba Senior ReporterCATTLE sales have been suspended in Matabeleland provinces following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Bulawayo, a development that has seriously affected thousands of commercial and communal farmers who survive on cattle ranching. The Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development suspended the sales and banned the …
Production of day old chicks increases April 9, 2015 Production of day old chicks increased by 22 percent last year to peak at 78,4 million, up from 64,4 million the previous year, an official said last Thursday.Zimbabwe Poultry Association chairman Solomon Zawe said large-scale broiler meat production last year was similar to 2013 at 2 …
Mat’land, Midlands set for worst harvest in five years: Fewsnet MATABELELAND and the Midlands are set to record one of the worst harvests in five years due to erratic rainfall, the United States-based Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) has predicted. BY STAFF REPORTER The southern parts of Zimbabwe and Manicaland this season experienced …
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Irrigation, mechanisation: It’s do or die by Editorial Comment | Sunday, Apr 5, 2015 | 285 views The increased prevalence of drought in Zimbabwe, particularly in the semi-arid parts of the country, has left many people’s livelihoods on edge. For a long time now, in fact for far too long, the emphasis of anti-drought strategies …
Sadc harvest lower than 2014 by Sunday Mail Reporter | Sunday, Apr 5, 2015 | 216 views Despite mixed production prospects at country level, an above-average aggregate cereal output – but still lower than the bumper 2014 harvest – is foreseen for Sadc in 2015. Late and uneven rains in the last quarter of 2014 delayed …
TOBACCO BOARD IN THE DOCK: by darlington musarurwa | Sunday, Apr 5, 2015 | 4837 views >>Chinamasa, Mumbengegwi get US$1m from contractor >>Tobacco price collapse sparks witchhunt Darlington Musarurwa and Africa Moyo THE plunge in prices on the tobacco auction floors, which has riled small-scale tobacco farmers, has prompted stakeholders to cast a dragnet for unscrupulous players that might …
Food security: Private sector to import maize by Sunday Mail Reporter | Sunday, Apr 5, 2015 | 1586 views Emilia Zindi and Lincoln Towindo Grain millers will in coming weeks import 600 000 tonnes of maize after getting Government approval to help supply food to drought-stricken districts. Government is mobilising funds for further imports, while it finishes …
Pastures Diminish In Mat South Mandla Tshuma 2 Apr 2015 BULAWAYO — Pastures are fast depleting in Matabeleland South, the country’s drought-prone province owing to a country-wide prolonged dry spell. This has raised fears that a devastating drought like the one which ravaged the province during the 2012-2013 season leaving over 9 000 cattle dead, could …