Category: Agriculture

Farmers support government stance on agric loan defaulters The Chronicle 31/8/2021 Harare Bureau FARMER organisations have welcomed the stance taken by the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Ministry to exclude farmers who cheat from future input schemes and even see offer letters withdrawn from those who side-market their crop. The Ministry recently stated …

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Govt gives Command Agric farmers ultimatum The Chronicle 28/8/2021 Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter FARMERS who benefited under Command Agriculture must repay at least 80 percent of the 2020/21 summer cropping season total loan by November 30, failure of which they won’t be enrolled in the coming season, a Cabinet Minister has said. Under the National …

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Lack of markets fail irrigation projects The Chronicle 28/8/2021 Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter MOST rural economic development projects collapse not because there is no commitment among project implementers but failure to market. This is true for Masiyephambili Irrigation Scheme in Zamanyoni Village, Matobo District, Matabeleland South which collapsed 16 years ago as its members could …

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‘2021 best beef marketing season’ The Chronicle 30/8/2021 Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter THE Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) says 2021 is the best beef marketing season underpinned by a good harvest after many years of drought induced food shortages. In its latest beef sector market watch report, LMAC says the good rains the …

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225K to get chicks from Government The Sunday Mail 29/8/2021 Kudakwashe Ruzive ABOUT 225 000 rural households will this year receive a share of more than 2,5 million free range chicks from Government under a programme that is meant to help foster rural household economic and nutritional resilience. The chicks will be distributed under the …

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Market linkages increase productivity The Sunday Mail 29/8/2021 Word from the market with AMA The impact of the Agricultural Recovery Plan (ARP) has been to reverse negative production and productivity trends that had suppressed the growth of various agricultural crops. Part of the low productivity has been attributed to a lack of market information and …

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ZMX drives funding into agriculture The Sunday Mail 29/8/2021 Business Reporter The recently launched Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) is currently focused on the storage and securitisation of commodities for them to become instruments that can be accepted in the financial services sector. Speaking during Business Weekly’s live programme, State of the Market, Mr Collen Tapfumaneyi, …

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Identifying export opportunities in agriculture inputs,implements The Sunday Mail 29/8/2021 Trade Focus Allan Majuru The growing world population and changing climatic patterns have resulted in a major boost towards increased agricultural production across countries. The fast-changing diets of developing countries have also changed the structure of the global agricultural systems and this has seen an …

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Japanese cattle breed boosts beef prospects  1  August 28, 2021 6:11 AM Source: Japanese cattle breed boosts beef prospects | The Herald Conrad Mupesa  Mashonaland West Bureau COMMERCIAL and small-holder livestock farmers can help spin the country’s beef export revenue collections should they choose to invest in the Japanese Wagyu breed whose returns are lucrative. The Wagyu beef …

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