Category: Agriculture

Victoria Falls Municipality sets up roster for vegetable vendors Chronicle 29/4/2020   Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter THE Victoria Falls Municipality (VFM) has introduced a roster for vegetable vendors operating at designated markets to ensure social distancing and decongest public areas to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Specific vendors will now be using the market …

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RBZ sticks to 50pc forex payment for tobacco farmers Chronicle 29/4/2020   Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter TOBACCO farmers will again this year be paid 50 percent of their deliveries in foreign currency, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced yesterday ahead of the 2020 marketing season, which begins today. In recent weeks, the Reserve Bank …

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Govt directs GMB to pay farmers within 7 days  Chronicle 29/4/2020   Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri. Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter GOVERNMENT has directed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to ensure farmers are paid within seven days of delivering their produce to the marketing depot. Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural …

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Zim among world’s top food crises — UN NewsDay 28/4/2020 ZIMBABWE is among the world’s top 10 countries where children are at risk of stunted and impaired physical and cognitive growth due to hunger-induced dietary challenges, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday. BY PRECIOUS CHIDA The joint report by the European Union, Food and Agriculture …

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Decentralised tobacco marketing should stay way into the future  Herald 28/4/2020   FLASHBACK . . . Farmers queue to deliver their tobacco in years gone by. The sale of tobacco has been decentralised to ensure farmers do not crowd in line with social distancing requirements to prevent the spread of coronavirus Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight THE …

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Tobacco marketing season begins  Herald 28/4/2020   Senior Business Reporter The 2020 tobacco marketing season opens tomorrow, after being delayed by nearly a week, with a cocktail of tight guidelines in place on how the golden leaf will be sold to counter the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The marketing season should have started on …

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COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe: a disaster for farmers  0  April 28, 2020 2:03 AM Source: COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe: a disaster for farmers | zimbabweland Over the last few weeks we have been tracking what’s been happening in our rural study sites in Zimbabwe as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown (see the earlier blog too). Last week, I caught …

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Hunger stalks Mat’land region  0  April 28, 2020 2:05 AM Source: Hunger stalks Mat’land region – NewsDay Zimbabwe HUNGER has stalked hundreds of families in the Matabeleland region who relied mostly on remittances from migrant workers in South Africa and Botswana after borders were closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. By Richard Muponde This comes amid reports by …

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Covid-19 derails Dendairy’s expansion programme Chronicle 28/4/2020   Michael Magoronga, Midlands Correspondent KWEKWE-based dairy company, Dendairy, has temporarily shelved its expansion programme due to the negative impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. The pandemic has seen the global economy going on a standstill with crippling effects on domestic businesses and ordinary people’s livelihoods. At home the …

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Traders count losses as 56 tonnes of produce rot Herald 25/4/2020   Masvingo Correspondent Scores of vendors in Masvingo are counting their loses after over 56 tonnes of their avocados and bananas went bad following the closure of the biggest fresh produce market in the city, Chitima, during the national lockdown to prevent the spread …

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