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Construction of amacimbi plant nears completion Sunday Mail 13/10/2019 Dr Sithembiso Nyoni Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Business Reporter WORK on the country’s first state-of-the-art mopani worm (amacimbi) processing plant in Beitbridge is nearing completion, a Cabinet Minister has said. In a telephone interview with Sunday News Business last Friday, Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Minister Dr Sithembiso …
Zimbabwean company sows first legal hemp seeds 1 October 12, 2019 8:05 PM Source: Zimbabwean company sows first legal hemp seeds | Fin24 A Zimbabwean company planted the country’s first authorised hemp crop on Friday at a prison in the capital Harare after the production of industrial cannabis was legalised last month. The Zimbabwe Industrial Hemp Trust (ZIHT) …
$50m bank loans too little: LMAC 0 October 13, 2019 6:55 AM Source: $50m bank loans too little: LMAC | Newsday (National) THE Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (Lmac) has said the maximum bank lending limit of $50 million for each project is inadequate to finance cropping by major contracting companies for the new season due to …
Farmers start receiving inputs 1 October 13, 2019 7:07 AM Source: Farmers start receiving inputs | Sunday Mail (Top Stories) Kuda Bwititi Chief Reporter DISTRIBUTION of inputs to small holder farmers under the Presidential Input Support Scheme, which targets 640 000 hectares of maize, has begun countrywide. At least 1,6 million and 350 00 hectares will be …
‘High agric input costs threaten productivity’ Herld 11/10/2019 Much attention has focused lately on the rising prices of farm inputs in the build-up to the 2019–2020 agricultural season. Key crop input prices are rising and show no sign of slowing. Our Agric, Environment and Innovations Editor Sifelani Tsiko (ST) speaks to a researcher at the …
Zim expects thundershowers Herald 11/10/2019 Lynn Munjanja Herald Reporter Zimbabwe is expected to experience scattered thundershowers accompanied by lightning, strong winds and hail in some parts of the country, according to the Meteorological Services Department (MSD). In a statement on Wednesday, the MSD said from yesterday, Manicaland, Matabeleland South, Masvingo, Midlands and parts of …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Farmers must plant early maturing crop varieties Chronicle 11/10/2019 Some light showers fell in Bulawayo and surrounding areas yesterday, with marginally heavier falls reported to have fallen elsewhere around the country. This could have marked the start of the 2019/20 summer rainfall period after a forgettable 2018/19 season when the country experienced …
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Zimbabwe needs to move beyond uncertainty By Newsday – October 10, 2019 guest column:Pearl Matibe “Climate change in Zimbabwe. You can hear it on the banks of Lake Kariba up north and feel it in the fields of Beitbridge in the south. You’ll see it in the classrooms of rural Gokwe, where the success or failure of …
Empowering Africa’s women farmers By Newsday – October 10, 2019 guest column:Ruth Meinzen Dick Over 60% of all employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture. Yet the region’s women farmers often reap a meagre harvest, not because of inclement weather or poor soil quality, but because of their gender — or, more specifically, because of a …
Market headache for young farmer Herald 10/10/2019 Takunda Maodza Mutare Bureau A 23-year-old Cashel Valley farmer is having sleepless nights over a market for his 32 000 heads of cabbages that are ready for the market. Law Tiengane of Svinurai Irrigation Scheme in Chimanimani East says he has been getting ridiculous offers, which will …