Category: Agriculture (archives)

Qaddafi’s Son Is Considering Investing in Dam, Ethanol Project in Zimbabwe http://www.bloomberg.com/ By Lauren van der Westhuizen – Aug 25, 2010 9:43 PM GMT+1000 Saadi Qaddafi, one of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s sons, has expressed interest in building an ethanol plant in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province, the Zimbabwe Reporter said. Gaddafi is visiting the southern African …

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Lower prices hit late tobacco deliveries http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 20 August 2010 16:15 TOBACCO farmers keen to make a killing by holding onto their crop until the end of the selling season have been caught out as prices have depreciated by US52 cents since the beginning of the season. According to figures at hand, prices fell …

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Zim at “extreme risk” of hunger http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Vusimuzi BhebheSaturday, 21 August 2010 11:54 HARARE – Zimbabwe is ranked among the top 10 countries in danger of hunger this year, according to a new reported published by British risk analysis and rating firm Maplecroft last week. Maplecroft’s Food Security Risk Index (FSRI) for 2010 …

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Zimbabwe’s ‘new’ farmers finally start to blossom http://www.mg.co.za/ GODFREY MARAWANYIKA | MAPINGA, ZIMBABWE – Aug 22 2010 06:35 Douglas Mhembere had only a plastic bag in hand when he took over a farm eight years ago under Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms. “I arrived here with nothing, just buns and a drink in a …

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UN agencies say 1.7 mln Zimbabweans need food aid http://af.reuters.com Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:05am GMT * Aid still needed despite farm sector recovering * Poverty increases chronic malnutrition in children HARARE, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Nearly 1.7 million Zimbabweans will require food assistance in the 2010/11 season despite the recent recovery of the country’s …

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Zimbabwe Tobacco Deliveries Rise to Highest in Eight Years, Beats Estimate http://www.bloomberg.com By Brian Latham – Aug 9, 2010 8:53 PM GMT+1000 Deliveries of tobacco by growers in Zimbabwe, the world’s sixth-biggest exporter of the flue-cured variety of the leaf, are at their highest level in eight years, the industry’s marketing board said. Growers have …

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Villagers face hunger — once again http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Rebecca MoyoFriday, 06 August 2010 14:11 BINGA — AT 63 years old, Elvis Mutani should be slowing down on the manual chores, like the countless trips he makes to the well to draw water for the garden. (Pictured:  Elvis Mutani planting an avocado fruit tree at …

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GMB pleads for US$15m http://www.financialgazette.co.zw Friday, 06 August 2010 12:24 Shame Makoshori, Chief Business Reporter EMBATTLED State-run grain procurement agency, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) urgently requires US$14, 7 million from Treasury to settle outstanding payments for grain delivered by farmers between June 19 and July 30 this year. This week, the State granary, which …

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Rare cattle project used to empower and heal communities http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by The ZimbabweanSaturday, 07 August 2010 10:30 “This is the first of meaningful development coming from our own children whom we educated in hardships,” said an ecstatic Monday Musoro pointing at two Brahman bulls donated to him and several other people in Bikita by …

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Zimbabwe’s Poor Face Starvation http://news.radiovop.com 06/08/2010 07:57:00 Harare, August 06, 2010 – The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) has warned Zimbabwe that although there was likely to be an improved supply of basic commodities on the market following the extension of the duty-free regulations, poor and very poor households in urban areas were likely …

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