Newly-resettled farmers reel from AgriBank loans

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Newly-resettled farmers reel from AgriBank loans http://www.theindependent.co.zw February 25, 2013 in News NEWLY-resettled A2 farmers in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central province are living on the edge after AgriBank issued final letters of demand urging them to settle outstanding debts or their properties lodged as collateral would be auctioned, the Zimbabwe Independent has established. Many A2 farmers have been struggling …

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Low cotton prices worry farmers

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Low cotton prices worry farmers http://www.thestandard.co.zw February 24, 2013 in Community News COTTON farmers in Chipinge district have bemoaned the low prices that the crop is currently fetching on the local market. BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA The farmers urged government to intervene and set prices that would keep them in business in the next farming season. Some farmers …

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Zim farmer protests to the EU

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Zim farmer protests to the EU 21 February 2013 Peta Thornycroft Mercury Foreign Service Evicted Zimbabwe farmer Ben Freeth has protested to the EU after it lifted financial and travel sanctions on the leader of a gang of President Robert Mugabe’s loyalists, who fractured his skull nearly five years ago.Freeth, 43, says he is appalled that sanctions …

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Land policy key to agric investment

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Land policy key to agric investment http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ February 22, 2013 in Business Government must restore the financial value of agricultural land by developing a robust market for agricultural land which will release a mortgage market, triggering a natural capital gain in the value of all land-based investments, the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) has said. Report by Fidelity …

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GMB negotiates for US$61m credit facility

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GMB negotiates for US$61m credit facility http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ February 22, 2013 in Business THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) is finalising negotiations with a foreign investor for a US$61 million credit facility to recapitalise the entity’s commercial business unit as the cash-strapped parastatal steps up its restructuring exercise. Report by Gamma Mudarikiri GMB chairman Charles Chikaura told businessdigest this week …

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60 rhinos killed in Save

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60 rhinos killed in Save Wednesday, 13 February 2013 18:24 0 Comments and 0 Reactions                                                                                                                                                                                    Nelson Chenga, Staff Reporter THE country lost about 60 rhinos in the past 10 years due to massive poaching activities in the Save Valley Conservancy, The Financial Gazette can reveal. Half of the conservancy’s 350 kilometre fence has been …

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2013 crop hectarage down – Made

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2013 crop hectarage down – Made   Total hectarage planted for major food crops has declined to 1.4 million hectares this year from 1.9 million hectares planted in 2012, a Cabinet minister has said.   Addressing the Joint Command and Staff Course Number 26 at the Zimbabwe Staff College, Agriculture, mechanisation and Irrigation development Minister …

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Violent Chegutu ‘war vet’ removed from sanctions list

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Violent Chegutu ‘war vet’ removed from sanctions list   http://www.swradioafrica.com           The EU has lifted sanctions on Chegutu ‘war vet’ Gilbert Moyo led the beating of Ben Freeth in 2008 By Alex Bell19 February 2013 Shock is being expressed over the European Union (EU) decision to remove a notoriously violent ‘war …

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Zimbabwe/Zambia electricty debt

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Zimbabwe/Zambia electricty debt http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk 19.02.13 by Rebecca Moyo ZESA Holdings says the creation of a sinking fund with a local bank would enable Zimbabwe clear its US$70,8 million debt owed to Zambia after the creation of a sinking fund with a local bank. Giving an update on operations before the Parliamentary Committee of State Enterprises and Parastatals today, …

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100 Farmers Stranded at Mashonaland West GMB Depot

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100 Farmers Stranded at Mashonaland West GMB Depot http://www.voazimbabwe.com/ Gibbs Dube18.02.2013 WASHINGTON DC — More than 100 communal farmers in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province are stranded at Magunje Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot after the parastatal failed to pay them for maize delivered last agricultural season. According to three lawmakers, the farmers have nowhere to go as they …

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