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Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being  Chronicle 21/3/2021   The Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industries Hon Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu plants the Tree of the Year 2021, the Piliostigma thonningii/Monkey bread/Ihabahaba/Musekesa during a tree planting ceremony at the Centenary Park, Bulawayo on Friday Yvonne Ncube, Chronicle Reporter ZIMBABWE on Friday joined …

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Silobela Irrigation Schemes’ rehabilitation on course  Chronicle 22/3/2021   Manoki-Mpofu Michael Magoronga, Midlands Correspondent THE rehabilitation works at two irrigation schemes is on course in Silobela in the Midlands Province as the country seeks to enhance food production beyond rain-fed planting. Silobela is home to Mayorca and Exchange Irrigation Schemes, which are expected to play …

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Export crops to transform rural areas Herald 19/3/2021   President Mnangagwa Ishemunyoro Chingwere in Gutu Export-oriented agriculture has the scope to foster rapid rural industrialisation and expedite the attainment of Vision 2030, President Mnangagwa has said.  The President said this in a speech read on his behalf by Zanu PF secretary for administration, Dr Obert …

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Chikombedzi folk risk life to cross flooded Runde River  0  March 18, 2021 4:46 PM Source: JUST IN: Chikombedzi folk risk life to cross flooded Runde River | The Herald George Maponga in Masvingo Villagers in Chikombedzi are risking life and limb by daily crossing the flooded and crocodile-infested Runde River with home-made canoes amid growing calls for …

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JUST IN: Mash East targets 14 000 ha for winter wheat  0  March 18, 2021 4:49 PM Source: JUST IN: Mash East targets 14 000 ha for winter wheat | The Herald Rutendo Rori Mash East Correspondent Mashonaland East is targeting to put 14 000 hectares of land under winter wheat this season and has started the verification …

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Middlemen rip off tobacco farmers Herald 18/3/2021   Walter Nyamukondiwa in TENGWE Cash-rich middlemen are ripping off tobacco farmers who are in the nascent stages of harvesting in preparation for marketing at the auction floors or to contractors. The vulture-like middlemen are reportedly buying entire fields and harvested crops currently being cured in barns, brewing …

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Farmers hail Govt over GMB collection points Herald 18/3/2021   Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Aplonia Munzveregwi (left) tours farms in Murehwa yesterday.— Picture: Rutendo Rori Rutendo Rori Mashonaland East Correspondent Farmers in Murehwa have expressed gratitude to Government for establishing more collection points as this will end the challenge of travelling long …

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