Cotton, soya beans get industry backing By The Zimbabwe Independent – April 16, 2021 BY FIDELITY MHLANGA AGRICULTURAL industry players have backed the rollout of new regulations placing huge fines and jail terms on backstage market dealers benefiting from the side marketing of soya beans and seed cotton. They said the new regimes, which came …
Millers to sign maize, wheat deal By The Zimbabwe Independent – April 23, 2021 BY FREEMAN MAKOPA The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has revealed that it is currently working on signing a memorandum of understanding with a local company in a bid to fund contract farming and cut maize and wheat import bills. …
Side marketing of crops: A problem or symptom? By The Zimbabwe Independent – April 23, 2021 BY VICTOR BHOROMA The Zimbabwean government recently criminalised the side marketing of soya beans and unginned cotton by farmers and middlemen under the Grain Marketing Act of 1966. This was done through Statutory Instrument (SI) 97 of 2021 (Control …
Agric new assignments: Much ado about nothing By The Zimbabwe Independent – April 23, 2021 BY BRIAN CHITEMBA THIS week President Emmerson Mnangagwa reassigned senior government officials with Davis Marapira as Minister of State in charge of Monitoring and the Implementation of Special Agricultural programmes, Reverend Paul Damasane now a deputy chief secretary, Amos Marawa …
Orange–fleshed sweet potatoes: A boost to nutrition security Herald 26/4/2021 Sweet potatoes have been a traditionally accepted and resilient enhancing food crop across Zimbabwe since time immemorial Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Recently, Zimbabwe launched the orange-fleshed sweet potato variety as part of efforts to boost the country’s food and nutrition security. …
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National database for all farmers created Herald 26/4/2021 Minister Masuka Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter A comprehensive national database for all farmers, which will form the foundation of an enhanced Agriculture Information Management System (AIMS), is being set up by the Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Ministry. Growers from smallholders to corporates will …
Cotton farmers to get outstanding dues Herald 26/4/2021 file pic Columbus Mabika Herald Reporter Cotton farmers have been assured that they will be paid their outstanding dues in full by mid next month for the crop delivered last season, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Permanent Secretary Dr John Basera said last week. …
Reparations in Reverse: How Zimbabwe Is Giving Land Back to the Families of White Colonizers 0 April 23, 2021 1:37 PM “We all still have scars of having land taken from us in the past.” Source: Reparations in Reverse: How Zimbabwe Is Giving Land Back to the Families of White Colonizers Early in March 2021, 12,000 people …
Human-wildlife conflict headache in Matobo 0 April 25, 2021 11:09 AM Source: Human-wildlife conflict headache in Matobo | The Sunday News File picture: Human and wildlife conflict Judith Phiri, Features Reporter AT first, it was one or two calves that would go missing. Even after finding the carcasses by the bushes nearby, the pain of losing the calves …
Chinese miner brings hope to Bindura farmers 0 April 25, 2021 3:18 PM Source: Chinese miner brings hope to Bindura farmers | The Standard BY TAURAI MANGUDHLA An average farmer’s greatest challenge when funding is in place is getting it right on the field. It is a combination of the right choice of crop and variety to grow …