Category: Agriculture

Storm-hit Zimbabweans endure another rainy season in risky homes  0 January 31, 2020 2:02 AM Source: Storm-hit Zimbabweans endure another rainy season in risky homes – Reuters CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Albert Sabawe, 25, is waiting to eat lunch, resting against the wall of his flimsy wooden home in a small village in eastern Zimbabwe’s Chimanimani …

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GMB stocks depleted by Staf reporter 1 hr ago | 248 Views ZIMBABWE’s hunger situation has escalated to unsustainable levels as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) stocks have depleted. The chairman of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Tafadzwa Musarara told Business Times that there is need to import maize to avert hunger. “Though the country is …

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Cottco gets new board since 2016   Herald 30/1/2020  Business Reporter THE Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco), the country’s largest financier of the cotton crop, has a new board to be chaired by academic, Dr Abraham Babs Nyoni. Dr Nyoni, a senior lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology will be deputised by …

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Double-edged sword of drought, machete gangs   Herald 30/1/2020  White elephant . . . Nearly three years since Tugwi-Mukosi Dam was commissioned, there has been much talk about coming up with a Master Development Plan, which seems to take eternity to draw Lovemore Chikova, Development Matrix Zimbabwe’s development is anchored on many variables, but mining …

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Storm cripples citrus project Herald 30/1/2020   Shashe community citrus project agronomist Mr Godman Moyo shows some of the wilting fruit trees. – Pictures: Thupeyo Muleya Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau While drought-prone Matabeleland South has turned to Government-sponsored irrigation schemes, stray elephants and  natural disasters like hailstorms have not been kind to them. They have …

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Don’t panic over locusts: Govt  Herald 30/1/2020   Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Government has advised local farmers not to panic over the desert locusts that have invaded East Africa, as systems have been put in place to monitor their movement. The invasion by the migratory pests poses a threat to food security in the …

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Delta injects $11m into sorghum farming  0 January 30, 2020 2:03 AM Source: Delta injects $11m into sorghum farming – NewsDay Zimbabwe January 29, 2020 BY MTHANDAZO NYONI DELTA Corporation has injected more than $11 million into its Beverages Sorghum Contract Farming Scheme (BSCFS) during the 2019/2020 farming season, as it moves to support local farmers. Delta requires about …

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Irrigated maize harvest set for next week   Herald 29/1/2020  From Sydney Mubaiwa in CHIREDZI Harvesting of irrigated maize grown by Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe in partnership with the Masvingo Development Trust is set for next week. About 1 500 tonnes of grain are expected to be harvested from over 327 hectares planted. …

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African armyworm outbreak: Govt supplies more chemicals  Chronicle 29/1/2020   Midlands Bureau Government has supplied more chemicals to deal with the African armyworm outbreak in Midlands, the province’s lands, crop and livestock officer Mrs Madeline Magwenzi has said. Experts were dispatched to the province last week to assess the requirements following an outbreak of African …

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Farmers upbeat on cotton outlook   Chronicle 29/1/2020  A cotton field Harare Bureau  COTTON farmers in Gokwe District in the Midlands Province, say they expect a bumper harvest this season despite a dry spell experienced in November and December last year. Cotton is one of Zimbabwe’s major cash crops alongside tobacco and is an important …

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