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New dawn for marginalised communities Herald 14/4/2021 A section of the vast Chiredzi map hosting Chilonga. Fungi Kwaramba-Political Editor THE Government has come up with a national master plan which will transform hitherto marginalised communities into areas of growth with capacity to economically contribute to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). To start the …
Ema declares war on veld fires By Newsday.Co.Zw – April 13, 2021 BY BEAUTY NYUKE THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has called for public awareness on veld fires as the country has been losing over a million hectares of land every year to veld fires. In a statement yesterday, Ema spokesperson Amkela Sidange said despite a 30,38% …
Matanga, Sibanda sued for land grab By Newsday.Co.Zw – April 13, 2021 BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Phillip Valerio Sibanda have been taken to court for grabbing a Mazowe farm protected under the Bilateral Investments Protection and Promotion Agreement (BIPPA). Andreas Peter and Shaun Livaditakis claimed in their court application …
Plan to boost cotton growing Herald 13/4/2021 Fungai Lupande Mash Central Bureau The Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) is coming up with a new sustainable production and marketing model ahead of the cotton marketing season to boost production. Government has already announced this year’s cotton floor producer price of $85 (about US$1) per kg. Speaking …
Decentralisation of tobacco floors will not only benefit farmers . . . Herald 14/4/2021 There are many people and businesses along the value chain that are benefiting from the decentralisation of tobacco floors Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight The 2021 tobacco marketing season got off to an auspicious start last Wednesday, with statistics from the Tobacco …
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Tobacco farmers earn US$9m in 3 days Herald 13/4/2021 Music legend Nicholas ‘Madzibaba’ Zakaria shows off some of his tobacco crop in Mazowe recently Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Farmers have earned US$8,9 million in the first three days of the 2021 tobacco marketing season after selling 3,7 million kg of the crop at the …
Time to devise new tobacco curing fuel Herald 13/4/2021 Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter The land reform programme implemented by the Government of Zimbabwe two decades ago has been a huge success especially in the tobacco sector, where locals have taken the sector to levels where production is almost at par with what white …
Calls for zumbani research Herald 13/4/2021 Ray Bande Senior Reporter Stakeholders have called for local research on the medicinal properties of the fever tea tree, locally known as zumbani. This comes as some of Manicaland’s biggest institutions are conducting research for the purposes of producing tea and throat lozenges from the plant. While the …
Major boost for winter wheat farming Herald 13/4/2021 Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Small-scale farmers with access to irrigation can now move into winter wheat and get an extra crop during the year with the Presidential Inputs Scheme expanded to include winter wheat with about 5 000 hectares likely to be planted in this scheme …
Agric landscape has changed for the better Chronicle 13/4/2021 Mr Paul Zakariya Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter THE land reform exercise, which Government undertook after Independence corrected colonial imbalances in the ownership of the means of production by giving back land to locals who were pushed out from their fertile land by white settlers. Before …