Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Farmers appeal for agent lines resumption Herald 9/7/2020 Dr Mangudya Business Reporter Frustrated cotton farmers have once again appealed to authorities to have agents’ lines of ginneries opened so that they can be paid amid concerns that continued delays was further eroding value of their earnings. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), however, implored …
Shiri to engage banks on agric loans Herald 9/7/2020 Minister Shiri Fungai Lupande Mash Central Bureau Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri says he is going to negotiate with banks that assisted farmers with loans after they hiked their interest rates to 32 percent from 10.5 percent, which he described …
Insiza District champions goat rearing project 9/7/2020 Acting Principal of Pangani Vocational Training Centre Mr Stanford Ngwenya (right) explains to the chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation Honourable Mathias Tongofa (2nd from right) accompanied by his team during a tour of the goat project at the centre in Filabusi, …
Forex auction system excites tobacco farmers 9/7/2020 The Chronicle Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter TOBACCO farmers have expressed excitement over the Foreign Currency Auction Trading System, which has seen them receiving improved payments that are closer to market value. Three weeks ago Government through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe phased out the fixed exchange rate …
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis Chronicle 9/7/2020 Emmanuel Koro The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe’s prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis characterised by a drying up of funds to pay the countries’ rangers and …
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Toll and vehicle licence fees hiked Chronicle 9/7/2020 Minister Joel Biggie Matiza The Chronicle Harare Bureau The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration has increased toll fees with immediate effect. Light vehicles now pay $45 to go through a toll and $750 every four months licence fees. The changes were made by Minister of Transport and Infrastructural …
Farmers face bleak season NewsDay 7/7/2020 AGRO-DEALERS in Insiza South are selling farming inputs in foreign currency, crippling farming activities at the Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme, the lifeblood of the community, Chief Sibasa has said. BY SILAS NKALA Chief Sibasa, born Bekezela Sibanda, who is a plotholder at the irrigation scheme under his jurisdiction, told Southern …
Police foil US$8,5m fuel scam 7/7/2020 NewsDay POLICE have claimed that they recently foiled a 10 million-litre fuel heist from PetroTrade by a deputy director in the District Development Fund (DDF) and his accomplices. BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE DDF deputy director, (plant and equipment Mukwati Building) Tonongei Machingura (57) at the weekend appeared at Harare Magistrates’ …
JUST IN: Kariba water levels continue rising Herald 8/7/2020 Walter Nyamukondiwa Kariba Bureau WATER levels in Lake Kariba have continued to rise steadily, peaking at 41,57 percent which was above the first peak recorded at the end of June before starting another modest decline. Buoyed by higher than the previous year’s water levels affected …
Zim set for record wheat yield 8/7/2020 The Herald Herald Reporter Zimbabwean farmers planted over 42 000 hectares of winter wheat this year and are likely to harvest more than half the annual requirement, legislators heard yesterday. Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr John Basera said Government was excited by the condition …