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Going green most effective in farming Chronicle 28/6/2021 Melody Dube, Features Reporter GOING GREEN in agriculture can be the most effective way to preserving what is left of the environment which has always been the main source of food production for people and wildlife. This is the process of utilising eco-friendly materials when conducting …
Govt committed to Tuli-Manyange Dam completion, releases $43m Chronicle 28/6/2021 Tuli-Manyange Dam construction project Engineer Paul Dengu (left) chats with the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in charge of Implementation and Monitoring, Joram Gumbo (right) and Matabeleland South Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Cde Abedicho Ncube (centre) during their tour …
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Daring farmer reaps benefits from leap of faith 1 June 26, 2021 6:54 AM Source: Daring farmer reaps benefits from leap of faith | The Herald Mrs Teresina Sayi-Nyangari (with glasses) in her tobacco field at Fairfield Farm, Bubi district recently. Nqobile Tshili region have not attempted .DURING the 2017/18 farming season, a farmer from Bubi district took …
Side marketing blight tobacco marketing season 0 June 27, 2021 7:28 AM Source: Side marketing blight tobacco marketing season | The Sunday Mail Emmanuel Kafe and Kudakwashe Ruzive THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture last week said it would intensify probe into allegations that surrogate marketers have flooded the tobacco marketing industry and are fleecing farmers by buying …
www.newsday.co.zw /2021/06/water-power-supply-boost-for-wheat-farmers/ Water, power supply boost for wheat farmers – NewsDay Zimbabwe 25/6/2021 BY FIDELITY MHLANGA A BUNDANT water reserves and consistent power supply will boost this year’s winter wheat production. Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union president Shadreck Makombe told NewsDay Business that unlike previous years which were characterised by climate change-induced droughts, this season’s good rains have …
Massive manhunt for cow dung thieves Herald 25/6/2021 MUMBAI. – A massive manhunt is underway in central India after a gang of robbers stole nearly a tonne of cow dung from a village, police said. Villagers in the central state of Chhattisgarh complained to police last week after more than 800kg of manure disappeared …
TIMB speaks on contract farming Herald 25/6/2021 The tobacco industry has seen a new structure where principal contractors have engaged third parties who would sponsor tobacco production by funding farmers through inputs Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter THE Government will soon amend a law regulating tobacco contractors to define their roles with regards to contracted …
Increase awareness on land degradation: FAO Herald 25/6/2021 Land-Degradation Sifelani Tsiko Agric Editor Zimbabwe must take wide-ranging steps to raise public awareness on desertification and land degradation to help combat desertification and the effects of drought, a senior UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) official has said. FAO sustainable natural resources management specialist Mr …
ARDA under transformation Herald 25/6/2021 Minister Masuka George Maponga in Masvingo The Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) is being transformed to become a key agent in steering rural agricultural development to engender rural transformation that is key in making Zimbabwe an upper middle income economy by 2030. Speaking at an ARDA workshop in …
Muzarabani farmers struggle for sesame seed market Herald 24/6/2021 Mr and Mrs Richard Manyere harvesting sesame seeds. Phyllis Kachere-Deputy News Editor Convergence For 42-year-old Mrs Lydia Mudoro of Chareka Village in Muzarabani’s Ward 23 covering the Kaerezi area, growing sesame seeds as an alternative cash crop to her traditional cotton came as a welcome and …
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