Category: Agriculture (archives)

Africans urged to embrace scientific agriculture http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 24 October 2010 18:29 THERE is need to embrace scientific interventions in agriculture in order to improve Africa’s poor yields, especially in light of food crises on the continent, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has said. Speaking on Africa’s agriculture to students and journalists at Columbia …

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Zanu’s still born bio-diesel project http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Sandile MaeraWednesday, 20 October 2010 09:26 CHIPINGE – The US$600 million ethanol project in Chisumbanje and Middle Sabi has still not taken off due to faction infighting, as Zanu (PF) fat cats squabble around the feeding trough.  (Pictured: Sugarcane is being grown to fuel the bio-diesel project, …

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United States Provides Support to Urgent Food Security Needs and Recovery in Zimbabwe   Harare, October 6 – The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace (FFP), is responding to the needs of Zimbabweans who require food aid during the 2010-2011 lean season.   USAID is partnering …

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Farm unions disagree over crop shortages http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Staff ReporterWednesday, 06 October 2010 17:30 HARARE – Forecasts that homegrown crops will not be enough to feed the country have led to conflicting opinions from the country’s two farmers’ unions over Zimbabwe’s need for food imports. Since 2000, Zimbabwe has become increasingly reliant on food …

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Nearly 1mn Zimbabweans to need food aid until December : FEWSNET http://www.apanews.net/ APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) A United States-funded famine early warning system said Sunday that close to a million Zimbabweans will require food aid until the end of the year and the number could rise by more than 40 percent before the next harvest in March …

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Villagers barter goats for bag of maize http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Vusimuzi BhebheSaturday, 02 October 2010 16:29 HARARE – Hungry Zimbabwean villagers have turned to are exchanging a goat for a 50kg bag of maize amid warnings that nearly a million people in rural areas will need food aid between October and December. Barter trade is …

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RBZ thwarts Zanu PF looters of farm tools http://www.thestandard.co.zw Saturday, 02 October 2010 18:25 BULAWAYO – The Reserve Bank has stopped Zanu PF officials in Matabeleland from grabbing and distributing amongst themselves its farm mechanisation equipment that has been lying idle for the past three years in Bulawayo. Zanu PF officials in the southern region …

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No shortage of sugar this year –– Mtsambiwa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 ZIMBABWE’s sugar production will be enough to meet the country’s needs until March next year, Hippo Valley Estate Ltd Chief Executive Officer Sydney Mtsambiwa says.Speaking to businessdigest after the company’s AGM on Wednesday, Mtsambiwa said there would be no shortage of …

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Hungry Mwenezi villagers survive on baboons http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Godfrey MtimbaFriday, 01 October 2010 16:07 MWENEZI – The baboon population is under threat of being wiped out in Mwenezi as desperate villagers have resorted to eating the human-like wild animal  to avert hunger and starvation, game ranchers in the area have revealed. Hunger and starvation continue …

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Construction of the Bubi-Lupane Dam has resumed   after the government released $2, 6 million for   completion of the project. The project, expected to be completed by December, will provide consistent water supply to over 60 000 people in Lupane. Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) Bubi-Lupane Dam resident engineer, Paul Dengu told NewsDay that …

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