Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Petrol blending back to E20 Herld 8/6/2020 Herald Reporter The mandatory percentage of ethanol blending has been restored to 20 percent after sitting at 10 percent after ethanol production fell below market requirements.. Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi announced the restored percentage in a general notice gazetted as General Notice 926A of …
Chipinge farmers venture into goat production Herald 8/6/2020 Dr Gwaradzimba Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau For three consecutive years the skies have not been generous in Chipinge and neither has the sun been merciful. Once seething rivers – from Save to the smallest – have shrivelled to ghostly figures of past selves. The once frothing …
EDITORIAL COMMENT : Piggery scheme can transform livelihoods Herald 8/6/2020 President Mnangagwa recently launched a piggery scheme under his Presidential Livestock Inputs Support Programme that will see beneficiaries each borrowing two sows and a boar on a free loan. After the first litter, a beneficiary is expected to pass the pigs to the next …
Major dams water levels continue to decline Chronicle 8/6/2020 Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter WATER levels in the country’s major dams continue to decline following the conclusion of the rainy season which left the national dam average at 49 percent in May from 51,2 percent in April. Bulawayo supply dams were the worst affected as …
Fire season looms – Farmers urged to prepare Chronicle 8/6/2020 Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent FARMERS have been urged to start preparing for the fire season through biomass harvesting, fire guard construction and mobilisation of firefighting teams in order to reduce the destruction being caused by veld fires each year. The fire season stretches from …
Hunting, safari operators count Covid-19 losses Chronicle 8/6/2020 Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter ZIMBABWE’S safari and hunting industry is counting losses due to outbreak of Covid-19 amid fears that the sector might take three years to recover from the effects of the global pandemic. The tourism sector has been severely crippled by the novel …
Zimbabwe grain deficit seen widening to 1.17 mln tonnes – Agricultural Commodities 0 June 7, 2020 11:59 AM Source: Zimbabwe grain deficit seen widening to 1.17 mln tonnes – Agricultural Commodities – Reuters HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s grain deficit is expected to widen to 1.17 million tonnes this year despite a small increase in production, the latest official …
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$40k+ Will Buy You a License to Grow Cannabis in Zimbabwe 0 June 7, 2020 12:02 PM Zimbabwe is the second African country to legalize medicinal cannabis for commerical use. For upwards of $40k, cultivation can start Source: $40k+ Will Buy You a License to Grow Cannabis in Zimbabwe – CBD Testers As Africa’s second country to change …
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Zimbabwe still expects to go hungry despite increase in expected maize production 0 June 8, 2020 2:02 AM Zimbabwe is expecting to record an estimated 17% increase in maize production for the 2019/20 agricultural season, but the output is still around half what the country needs. Source: Zimbabwe still expects to go hungry despite increase in expected …
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Dam Levels as at 25-May-2020 DAM NAME FULL SUPPLY CAPACITY CURRENT CAPACITY % FULL DAILY TREND (millions of cubic metres) (millions of cubic metres) Kariba 64800.00 24549.9 37.9 Tugwi Mukosi 1802.6 740.0 41.1 Mutirikwi 1378.08 532.8 38.7 Manyame 480.23 331.4 69.0 Osborne 401.64 184.4 45.9 Mazvikadei 343.815 254.4 74.0 Manyuchi 309.06 150.1 48.6 Manjirenji 274.17 …