Category: Agriculture (archives)

Cabinet Takes Up Food Aid Politicization Amid Deepening Hunger http://www.voanews.com 24 April 2012 Blessing Zulu & Jonga Kandemiiri | Washington Zimbabwe’s cabinet was on Tuesday pre-occupied with the unfolding hunger crisis in the country following complaints by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC formation that most needy families were being denied food aid by ZANU-PF activists. The MDC says …

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Ethanol plant halts production http://www.newzimbabwe.com 01/04/2012 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter THE US$600 million Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje has ceased production after running out of storage space as the company struggles to push its product on the local market. State media reported Sunday that Green Fuel has also been forced to sack 230 employees after production ceased …

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Maize scandal http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Chris Goko and Xolisani NcubeMonday, 02 April 2012 12:00 HARARE – Zimbabweans are at risk of consuming condemned maize as it emerges that some unscrupulous businessmen are buying the grain meant for stock feed and processing it as mealie-meal for the poor. The Daily News has discovered that the dealers have been buying …

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Inputs scam: GMB bosses summoned http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 30 March 2012 11:28 Owen Gagare THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Lands, Water, Irrigation and Resettlement has summoned Grain Marketing Board managers to shed light on the looting of inputs by ministers and other high-profile individuals.The committee is investigating the extensive looting of inputs, especially fertiliser, and believes GMB managers are …

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TN to launch Cattle Bank http://www.dailynews.co.zw/ By EditorTuesday, 27 March 2012 13:23 HARARE – Small-holder cattle farmers are set to be absorbed into Zimbabwe’s mainstream economy through an initiative by TN Bank to launch a Cattle Bank (CB) that will recognise cattle as a bankable asset. Speaking at the Euro Money — Zimbabwe Investment Conference in Harare …

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Bank blamed in GMB rot http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Lloyd Mbiba, Staff WriterTuesday, 27 March 2012 01:45 HARARE – Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (Agribank) has contributed to the rot in the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by exposing the state parastatal to losses of funds through a weak banking system, according to an audit conducted by a local accounting firm. …

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Time to revive agricultural sector http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Revelations by the World Food Programme (WFP) that “the food situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated more drastically than expected,” are worrying. This dire situation was further confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture and Mechanisation Joseph Made who recently announced that 500 000 hectares of the maize planted during the 2011/12 planting season …

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Zimbabwe’s Mopani Worms Disappearing from Rural Diets http://ipsnews.net/ By Ignatius Banda* PLUMTREE, Zimbabwe, Mar 23, 2012 (IPS) – Job Mthombeni loves traditional food. One of his favourite culinary delights is Mopani worms, referred to locally as amacimbi, which means caterpillar in Ndebele. At an early age he understood the nutritional value of the worm, which is found in …

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Zimbabwe faces acute hunger, starvation http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:00 By Tendai Marima ANOTHER season, another failed harvest and the nation faces a grain deficit, hunger and possible starvation. And yet once again, the government, always reacting to problems, finds itself unprepared to deal with an impending food crisis. According to the final crop assessment by the …

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Bigwigs under probe over inputs scam http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Friday, 23 March 2012 10:02 PARLIAMENT is probing the distribution of inputs for the 2011/2012 agricultural season as more names of influential people who used their political muscle to grab large amounts of inputs, particularly fertiliser, emerged this week.Topping the list is Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri who accessed 80 tonnes of fertiliser …

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