Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Delinquent tobacco contractors, farmers must face the music Herald 18/5/2021 TIMB may have taken it for granted that all was going well between contractors and their clients yet the opposite was going down Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) recently took the ‘gloves off’ route and suspended a tobacco contractor, …
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Riding the wave: Surviving locust outbreak losses Herald 18/5/2021 Madhumbudya (a local edible locust species called Ruspolia differens) destroyed sorghum and millet crops which has triggered hopelessness among Chiredzi and Mwenezi farmers Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Ratidzo Tiringindi, a smallholder farmer in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi district watched helplessly as …
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Tobacco farmers must plant more woodlots Herald 18/5/2021 Tobacco farmers must adopt environmentally-friendly curing methods Tobacco farmers need to take seriously the warnings that chopping down swathes of indigenous woodland to feed their curing barns is likely to imperil many of their markets and there is now urgent need to switch to other sources …
Government suspends maize imports Chronicle 18/5/2021 Ms Irene Ngwenya sorts maize before shelling in Plumtree yesterday Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE will this year save over US$300 million following the move by Government to suspend maize imports on the back of a bumper harvest the country has achieved this year. Due to successive …
Meet Chiredzi’s inquisitive chicken breeder Herald 17/5/2021 A Chiredzi farmer is cross-breeding native chickens with exotic broiler breeds just to find out if this can increase egg output, meat quality and quantity and potential resistance to diseases. Sifelani Tsiko-Agric & Innovations Editor Benson Moyo (61), a smallholder farmer at Bandama village in Ward 4 …
Deforestation threatens tobacco growing Herald 17/5/2021 Conrad Mupesa–Mash West Bureau ZIMBABWE is in danger of losing out on significant foreign currency from tobacco exports in the next 10 years if the wanton cutting down of trees without a corresponding replacement is not enforced. Forestry Commission director-general, Mr Abednigo Marufu, recently said the rate at …
A Climate Smart Technology project makes steady progress in Zimbabwe Chronicle 15/5/2021 A project launched in Zimbabwe in December 2020 to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on food and nutrition security using Climate Smart Technologies is making good progress with a thriving horticulture crop, a solar-powered borehole, and 100 efficient cook stoves having been …
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Sadc agric sector beyond Covid-19 Chronicle 17/5/2021 The Sadc Synthesis Report on the State of Food and Nutrition Security and Vulnerability in southern Africa 2020 showed that about 44,8 million people, living in both urban and rural areas, are food insecure Tawanda Matema and Cyril Prinsloo COVID-19 has affected global value chains by interrupting …
Zim can lead world in hemp production Sunday Mail 16/5/2021 Industrial hemp is set to be one of Zimbabwe’s biggest export earners Forbes Danckwerts and Munyaradzi Mlambo It is an exciting time for our nation as Zimbabwe re-emerges as a major and respected competitor in agricultural markets globally. In line with the countries vision …
Subsistence farmers need insurance too Sunday Mail 16/5/2021 Dr Muradzikwa Tawanda Musarurwa The low uptake of agricultural insurance in Zimbabwe can be linked to changes that occurred in the sector, which insurance companies have failed to respond to. The turn of the millennium saw the country’s agricultural sector undergoing a seismic shift, as the …