Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
CSC workers storm offices over unpaid salaries June 5, 2015 Business CSC workers on Tuesday downed their tools over unpaid wages at the plant in Belmont, Bulawayo Molline Gagare Business ReporterCOLD Storage Company (CSC) workers on Tuesday stormed management offices at the Bulawayo main plant demanding audience with the company’s chief executive officer, Ngoni Chinogaramombe over …
Midlands faces 93,000 tonnes food deficit June 8, 2015 Business Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau ChiefTHE Midlands province has a deficit of 93,000 tonnes of cereals after recording one of the worst harvests in five years due to erratic rainfall. Addressing delegates at the Midlands Show Society Indaba on Friday, the provincial agriculture research and extension services …
Price dispute halts cotton sales June 8, 2015 Business Cotton bales Molline Gagare Business ReporterTHE Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) has advised cotton growers to hold onto their produce until the dispute over pricing has been settled. The farmers demand fair price for the crop, which is inline with international market levels. ZFU executive director, Paul Zacharia …
Fresh foot and mouth outbreak in Midlands June 8, 2015 Local News Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau ChiefA Shortage of vaccines is hampering efforts to contain the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Midlands province, an official said yesterday. The provincial veterinary officer, Thomas Sibanda said there were fresh cases of foot and mouth disease …
GMO labelling: SAZ to unveil standard, but. . . June 8, 2015 Business Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story LAST year Mr Bothwell Chidziwa picked up a packet of cereal from a supermarket shelf in Gwanda, convinced he was buying stuff produced organically. But the 34 year-old soon found out that he was bitterly wrong. “I bought a …
Gonarezhou gets $6m June 8, 2015 Local News Hebert Zharare recently in GonarezhouFrankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), a Germany-based conservation organisation has released over $6 million towards the resuscitation of Gonarezhou National Park (GNP) to transform it into a commercially viable business. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority and FZS, signed a memorandum of understanding in 2007 …
Zim clinches beef export deal (File Photo) PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has reportedly clinched a deal to export beef to Equatorial Guinea amid reports that the Cold Storage Company (CSC) was only left with a mere 700 cattle, down from a head of 10 000 at the turn of the millennium. BY NQOBILE BHEBHE Vice-President Emmerson …
Growing the herd: CSC’s historical footprints by Business Reporter | Sunday, Jun 7, 2015 | 185 views THE CSC, as we know it today, is a successor entity of a pre-colonial institution that was created in 1938 mainly to serve the interests of small-scale cattle farmers and promote the country’s beef industry. [Extracts from a paper by …
Tobacco the way to go, farmers urged by Emilia Zindi | Sunday, Jun 7, 2015 | 90 views Due to the high costs of production, some farmers have opted for other crops like maize and soya beans Emilia Zindi – Agriculture Editor Tobacco farmers have been urged to continue producing the golden leaf despite the poor 2015 marketing …
Tobacco: The noose is tightening by darlington musarurwa | Sunday, Jun 7, 2015 | 478 views Is the future of tobacco viable SINCE Sunday – which itself was ominously the World No Tobacco Day – this has been a thoroughly unpleasant week for the tobacco industry: Stakeholders have had to digest unpalatable news both from the domestic front and …