Category: Newspaper Articles

Digital agriculture benefits Zim’s farmers but mobile money is costly    Chronicle 22/7/2020 Digital agriculture innovations include the Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union and Econet Wireless championed, Ecofarmer Combo programme, which delivers weather-based insurance, real time location-based weather information and farming tips to over 80 000 communal farmers Tonderayi Mukeredzi Shurugwi communal farmer, Elizabeth Siyapi (57) can …

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Covid-19 hits livestock farmers as prices tumble   Chronicle 22/7/2020  Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau SMALL-scale farmers in Matabeleland South have been hit hard by the effects of Covid-19 with prices of livestock continuing to tumble. The province has an estimated 700 000 cattle, which among other things is a major source of livelihood. An average …

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Dusk to dawn curfew – urgent measures to curb spread of Covid-19   Chronicle 22/7/2020  Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has imposed a dusk to dawn national curfew as Government takes urgent and decisive measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 cases that are rising rapidly. As of yesterday morning, the country had recorded …

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Boost for Zim’s tobacco industry NewsDay 21/7/2020 Innovation by tobacco giant, Philip Morris International (PMI), has now produced a reduced risk tobacco product that allows for smokeless consumption. The innovation is set to increase international demand for the golden leaf. BY Everson Mushava This new product called Iqos, one of many that PMI have in the …

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Vast hectarage does not always translate into high productivity! Herald 21/7/2020   Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight SOMETIMES farmers commit a lot of precious time and other resources to farm boundary disputes or looking for more land to add to what they already have, all in the name of trying to boost production levels. The majority of …

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Water diversion threat to winter wheat crop   Herald 21/7/2020  Mr Prince Hondo, a farmer at Nyamaropa Irrigation Scheme, shows the wheat crop that is being cultivated under the Command Agriculture programme Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau More than 240 hectares of winter wheat at Nyamaropa Irrigation Scheme in Nyanga is under threat after farmers outside …

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‘Agriculture projects on cost recovery basis’  Chronicle 21/7/2020   Minister Perrance Shiri Harare Bureau The mechanisation and irrigation projects initiated by Government of the Second Republic are not for free and beneficiaries will be expected to pay back whatever loans they get, with all loans being issued through banks using banking criteria of creditworthiness, Lands, …

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Government tightens lockdown regulations 21/7/2020 The Chronicle Mashudu Netsianda / Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporters GOVERNMENT has tightened lockdown regulations following a spike in Covid-19 cases in the country with police starting to demand exemption letters from those entering city centres. Only civil servants approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC) to provide essential service will …

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