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2021 tobacco season winners – The Zimbabwe Independent 30/4/2021 BY TAFARA MTUTU Zimbabwe’s 2021 tobacco selling season started on an upbeat note as sales volumes and average sales volumes exceeded prior year comparative figures since day 1 of the selling season. As of April 20, 2021, Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) statistics reveal that …
Time to enact a contract farming law – The Zimbabwe Independent 30/4/2021 REVELATIONS elsewhere in this issue that tobacco farmers have been struggling to access their monies after making deliveries demonstrate that exploitation is continuing in this sector. Something is not right, especially among contracting firms because they are acting like fraudsters. Why have they …
Dairy industry requires US$1bn for machinery – The Zimbabwe Independent 30/4/2021 BY MELODY CHIKONO ZIMBABWE’S ailing dairy industry requires up to US$1 billion to replace antiquated machinery at a time the sector is reeling from prohibitive lending rates. This comes as the Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) this week warned that the country’s banks did not …
Looters run riot at sugar giant – The Zimbabwe Independent 30/4/2021 BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA A SYNDICATE comprising powerful politicians, bankers and workers looted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the agro-industrial giant Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ) after an attempt to launch a crucial project collapsed a few years ago, an audit report seen by the Zimbabwe …
Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet Home News Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet Posted on April, 26, 2021 at 08:46 am The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew …
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Africa: Agriculture Will Make or Break Africa’s Free Trade Home News Africa: Agriculture Will Make or Break Africa’s Free Trade Posted on April, 30, 2021 at 09:28 am The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food insecurity in Africa. However, its …
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RATIN | News | Africa cashew nut farmers not reaping benefits EAGC RATIN2-2 minutes The three million African farmers who supply most of the world’s cashew nuts aren’t cashing in on the booming demand due to a lack of processing facilities, a UN body said on Friday. World production and trade in raw cashew nuts …
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Loss of wetlands spells disaster for Harare’s future water supply Herald 30/4/2021 It boggles the mind that Harare has lost half of its wetlands in the last decade, a move that has reduced delivery of clean water due to siltation of supply dams in turn leading to higher costs of water production. Blessings Chidhakwa-Municipal …
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Firm pays castor bean farmers US$550 000 Herald 30/4/2021 Oil Castor pays farmer for farming castor beans. Bulawayo Bureau BIO-TECHNOLOGY firm, Oil Castor, says it has spent US$550 000 out of the US$1,2 million it set aside to pay local castor bean farmers for their deliveries. The firm runs a programme where rural castor bean …