Category: Newspaper Articles

VP Chiwenga happy with initiatives to end hunger, poverty Herald 27/6/2020   Vice President Chiwenga Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter The progress of initiatives in agriculture to boost productivity and ensure import substitution have impressed the Government. This came out at the recent launch of the John Deere mechanisation facility at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering …

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Brands Fresh revenue declines  Herald 29/6/2020   Farmers offload bananas at a Mutare market recently Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau AGRO-MARKETING company, Brands Fresh, has recorded a significant decline in revenue in the first six months of this year due to depressed demand of bananas during the Covid-19 period. The company, which distributes fresh produce throughout …

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Tobacco growers urged to destalk Herald 29/6/2020   Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement has urged tobacco growers to destroy stalks as failure to comply will attract a fine of $500 per hectare. Non-compliance by farmers in removing stalks has resulted in the spread of diseases, thereby threatening …

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Is ethanol blending making petrol expensive – for now? Herald 29/6/2020   Since 2013, the country has mandatorily blended ethanol with petrol at rates of between five and 85 percent Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story Respected climate change researcher Elisha Moyo last week posted a particularly interesting brief analysis on the economics/politics of ethanol blending in …

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Food secure: Khami Prison steps up efforts to increase production    Chronicle 29/6/2020 Khami Medium Prison Farm has been turned into an integrated agricultural enterprise aimed at achieving food self-sufficiency at Bulawayo Prison, Mlondozi, Khami Remand, Medium and Maximum prisons. The farm draws water from Khami Dam. Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter KHAMI Medium Prison Farm, …

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Fuel prices spark public outrage Independent 26/6/2020 AS Zimbabwe’s fuel crisis intensifies, we took time to track the number of times the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) formally announced an increase in the price of fuel over the past 12 months. We found the energy regulator had, in the period under review, issued over 30 …

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Tobacco farmers demand 100% payment in forex Independent 26/6/2020 FOLLOWING the introduction of a forex auction system this week on Tuesday by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), tobacco farmers are outraged by the prevailing rate, which is below the parallel market and are demanding 100% payment in forex. Fidelity Mhlanga Farmers are bitter about …

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