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Cotton buyers, farmers haggle over prices http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:43 COTTON buyers and farmers are at loggerheads over prices producers feel are too low, businessdigest has established. A union representing farmers, the Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) is already urging farmers to hold onto their crop until buyers pay more or come up with plausible reasons why …
Politicians must prioritise agri sector – Rukuni http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Zimbabwe seriously needs politicians who give top priority to agriculture say Professor Mandivamba Rukuni.18.06.1101:25pmNgoni Chanakira Harare He told a three-day workshop in Harare last week, organised by The Mandi Rukuni Seminars, that the country’s administrators should pave the way forward for the once-thriving agriculture sector to return to the heights …
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Beef production nose-dives http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Annual beef production, which in 2005 stood at more than 90 000 tonnes, has nose-dived and only 63 breeders are left, says National University of Science and Technology Professor Themba Dlodlo.18.06.1112:51pmNgoni Chanakira Harare “In 2000 we also had 250 breeders with 20 000 head of cattle but in 2011 we only have 12 breeds …
Black farmers prove critics wrong: Mugabe http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 18/06/2011 00:00:00 by Gilbert Nyambabvu PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says the country’s economic recovery – driven largely by agriculture and mining — has helped prove wrong the perception that black farmers are not as productive as white counterparts. Zimbabwe’s agriculture-based economy hit the skids over the last decade with critics blaming Mugabe’s …
Landmines cost Zimbabwe millions http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 17 June 2011 09:23 Paidamoyo Muzulu ZIMBABWE is losing millions in potential revenue from tourism, timber and tea plantations because of more than 68 square kilometers covered by land mines planted during the liberation war in the Eastern Highlands. Colonel Mkhululi Ncube from the Zimbabwe National Army made these revelations to parliament …
Tobacco makes a recovery http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Chief ReporterSaturday, 11 June 2011 12:25Highest sales in a decade HARARE – The bids of buyers and sellers echoed loudly across the massive Tobacco Sales Floor in Willowvale as 2,800 bales were sold. This has been widely acclaimed as a 10-year record. But before the disastrous land “reform” engineered by …
NEPAD and agriculture – Africa’s development plan bears fruit Editor’s note: After years of talk NEPAD’s agriculture plan is finally taking root. Africa Renewal reports from down on the farm. By Ernest Harsch For most of the 1990s Sierra Leone was best known for its diamonds — and the devastating civil war they helped finance. …
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Bread shortages in Harare as Lobels bakery shuts down http://www.swradioafrica.com By Tichaona Sibanda9 June 2011 Lobels bakery, since independence the largest bread-making company in Zimbabwe, has shut down due to financial mismanagement which effectively crippled operations at the firm. Founded in 1950 by the Lobels family, the bakery in its heyday was arguably the most popular in the …
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Bread shortages resurface http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 05 June 2011 07:54 BREAD shortages have resurfaced throughout the country amid warnings that a massive price increase is in the offing.Wellington Penyana, the Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) president yesterday blamed the shortages on inadequate flour supplies and obsolete machinery at most bakeries. Baz says Zimbabwe produces 600 000 loaves of bread …
Zim imports milk products http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Ngoni ChanakiraMonday, 30 May 2011 18:06 .. as Dairibord hits rock-bottom HARARE – Already facing a serious economic crunch, Zimbabwe will this year import 41 million litres of milk, milk solids and butter oil at a total cost conservatively estimated at $7 million.This amount is up from the 31 million …