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Vegetables shortage hits Bulawayo Chronicle 17/1/2020 Desmond Nleya/ Rutendo Ngara, Chronicle Reporters BULAWAYO is experiencing a shortage of vegetables due to water shortage, Chronicle has established. This has pushed prices up while removing vegetables from menus of most homes and restaurants. Vendors and supermarket shelves have gone for weeks without the popular choumolier and rape thereby pushing the price …
Farmers urged to grow fodder for livestock Chronicle 17/1/2020 Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter FARMERS in Matabeleland North have been urged to diversify and grow fodder and legumes to counter effects of drought. This comes in the wake of reports that Matabeleland North province had lost 6 466 cattle to drought by end of November last year. …
Synergies for Growth – Cooperate. Collaborate. Complement. ZIMBABWE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY By Dr A J Masuka, Chief Executive Officer, Zimbabwe Agricultural Society Every year, since 2016, as part of a broader transformation strategy to rally consensus, and to bid and unite support for the wider cause of agriculture and to complement stakeholder efforts towards agriculture-led accelerated …
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It’s definitely a drought year, what next? Financial Gazette 9 January 2020 Peter Gambara DESPITE getting assurances from our own Meteorological Services Office that we should expect a “normal to below normal” summer season, it is now clear that we are experiencing one of the worst drought seasons we have ever seen. We last experienced …
Rains to persist up to next week Herald 16/1/2020 Nesia Mhaka,Herald Correspondent Zimbabwe is expected to continue receiving rains up to Monday, with some parts of the country expected to experience flash floods, Meteorological Service Department (MSD) deputy director Mrs Linia Gopo has said. For the past week, most parts of the country have …
Crop situation improves Herald 16/1/2020 Herald Reporters The crop situation has improved following rains that have hit the country in the last few days bringing renewed hope of decent harvests. Crops were deteriorating before the turn of the New Year as the dry spell prolonged across the country. Hope among farmers is high, especially …
Anthrax affects 33 in Bikita Herald 16/1/2020 Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent The number of people diagnosed with anthrax which hit Bikita last week has risen from 28 to 33 while cattle deaths rose to 40 from 24, an official has confirmed. The outbreak hit Bikita District in Masvingo last week causing loss of livestock …
New technology for Gwayi-Shangani Dam Chronicle 16/1/2020 An aerial view of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction site Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter ENGINEERS working on the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North have adopted a new construction technology to speed up work on the project they say will be completed by December next year subject to availability …
Time to revive rain-making ceremonies Herald 15/1/2020 Rain-making ceremonies such as this one were common place in days gone by. Names of such prophets as Murenga, Chaminuka and Mukwati were invoked during such ceremonies for their intersession to the Almighty God, especially in drought years Arthur Kaseke,Correspondent The recent dry spell, which had tale-tell …
Economists pin hope on rainy season Herald 15/1/2020 Mr Jabangwe Fradreck Gorwe, Business Reporter Economists and industrialists have pinned prospects for enhanced volumes performance by companies this year on adequate and good rainy season as well as increased incomes across various sectors of the economy. The discernible trend across most companies’ trading updates in the …