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Ramp up production, sugarcane growers told The Herald 25/10/2018 Tawanda Mangoma in Triangle The Zimbabwe Sugar Association Experiment Station has challenged indigenous commercial sugarcane farmers to ramp up production and help Zimbabwe’s aggregate sugar output to hit the 600 000 tonnes of raw sugar annually. Zimbabwe’s two cane mills at Hippo Valley and …
Tobacco hectarage declines The Herald 25/10/2018 Mary Muradzikwa Herald Reporter Tobacco farmers have so far put about 7 000 hectares under the crop, which is a decline of almost 50 percent from the area put under the crop during the same period last year. According to the latest Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board …
Zimbabwe cotton ranked third in the world The Chronicle 25/10/2018 Midlands Bureau ZIMBABWE is seeking to double its cotton production in the forthcoming summer cropping season amid growing demand for the country’s produce on the international market. Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) acting chief executive officer, Mrs Nancy Zitsanza, said there was a huge …
Zambezi Valley may soon be too hot for tsetse flies – NewsDay Zimbabwe 24/10/2018 The Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe may soon become too hot to support tsetse fly populations, researchers have warned. By Staff Reporter A new study, based on 27 years of data from Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe, suggests that temperature …
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Agric key to Zim’s revival Agriculture is a powerful sector which feeds into other sectors, such as cooking oil manufacture and bread making, thereby creating employment and widening the tax base The Herald 24/10/2018 Elijah Chihota Correspondent Zimbabwe’S economy is hinged on agriculture which feeds a number of downstream industries that process agricultural …
Govt plans to put 443 000ha under irrigation The Herald 24/10/2018 Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent Government has equipped 206 000 hectares with irrigation facilities across the country as it moves to avert hunger and ensure national food security at household level. Speaking during a stakeholder’s conference at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe National Water …
Veldfires and climate change The Herald 24/10/2018 Veldfires are a major challenge facing Zimbabwe and other sub-Saharan countries. To date, Zimbabwe has lost One Hundred and seventeen (117) people who died inferno since 2005 to date at the same time destroying millions worth of property and the environment. Three (3) of the lives …
Pure Oil invests $9m in soya farming Pure Oil Industries has been involved in soya bean contract farming required for the manufacture of edible oils over the last two years The Herald 24/10/2018 Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter PURE Oil Industries, one of Zimbabwe’s major cooking oil producers, says it has invested $9 …
National milk output rises by 11pc 24/10/2018 Source: National milk output rises by 11pc | Daily News HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cumulative milk output for the first half of the year stood at 34,77 million litres, surpassing the previous year’s performance of 31,19 million litres by 11,5 percent, the central bank has said. Highlighting that a total …
Farmers want tobacco levy scrapped – NewsDay Zimbabwe 22/10/2018 FARMERS have made fresh calls for the scrapping of the tobacco levy going into the next season, as $23 million collected under the fund since 2015 has not been disbursed to serve its purpose. BY FIDELITY MHLANGA In January 2015, government introduced an afforestation levy …