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Guidelines for medical cannabis Herald 13/5/2021 Mr Kambasha Tawanda Musarurwa Government has announced a set of policies and operational mechanisms for investment into the production and processing of medicinal cannabis. The operational framework will be administered through the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA)’s One Stop Investment Services Centre (OSICS). According to ZIDA chief …
As tobacco declines, Malawi targets switch to mbanje Herald 13/5/2021 President Chakwera LILONGWE. – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera warned yesterday that his country’s leading foreign exchange earner, tobacco, was in terminal decline and he urged a switch to high-growth crops like mbanje, which was legalised locally for some uses last year. Chakwera made the …
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National Fire week launched Herald 13/5/2021 Workers use a hay baler to compress cut and raked grass during the National Veld Fire Awareness Week launch at Gwebi Agricultural College just outside Harare yesterday. — Picture: Innocent Makawa Elita Chikwati and Conrad Mupesa The National Fire Week was launched at Gwebi Agricultural College yesterday with …
Small scale millers want access to more grain 0 May 12, 2021 4:12 PM Source: Small scale millers want access to more grain | The Herald Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Small-scale milling companies have called on Government to allow them make weekly payments for their monthly grain allocations from the Grain Marketing Board to enable them stay in …
Locusts invade Chilonga – NewsDay Zimbabwe 12/5/2021 BY VANESSA GONYE VILLAGERS in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi have said that their small grain crops have been ravaged by locusts, leaving very little to fall back on. This development adds to their woes after government recently announced plans to set up an irrigation programme in the …
New strategies required to enforce the Plant Pest and Disease Act among tobacco growers Herald 12/5/2021 Dr Dahlia Garwe Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Farmers’ failure to destroy tobacco stalks has prompted stakeholders in the industry to consider other punitive strategies on growers in order to promote compliance. The Plant Pests and Disease Act (Chapter …
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26 Chivi families in food security boost from Chombwe Herald 12/5/2021 File picture : Chivi Ward 11 Agritex Officer Mr Forward Masara standing in front of a thriving maize crop at Chombwe Water Scheme demonstration fields in the district. George Maponga in Masvingo A total of 26 families from the Svondo-Gudhe area of Chivi …
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Chilonga US$60m project on course Herald 12/5/2021 George Maponga in Masvingo The US$60 million Chilonga lucerne grass project is on course with the Government continuing consultations with the local community to ensure overwhelming buy-in for the project. This comes as the majority of the people in Chilonga, together with their traditional leaders, recently assured …
Tobacco fine to enforce stalk destruction reviewed Herald 12/5/2021 Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter The fine for not destroying tobacco stalks will be reviewed upwards to US$100 per hectare as stakeholders call for new strategies to ensure farmers adhere to the regulation. The Plant Pests and Disease Act (Chapter 19:08) makes it mandatory for farmers …
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Mash West Agritex officers get 77 bikes Herald 12/5/2021 Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Mliswa-Chikoka hands over a prize to one of the winners during the Chinhoyi Green Show in Chinhoyi this Sunday Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau Two local companies yesterday handed over 77 motorbikes to Agritex in Mashonaland West …