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New artificial dryer to boost Seed Co sales volumes The Chronicle 9/11/2021 Senior Business Reporter THE recent completion of an artificial maize seed dryer coupled with regional exports and sustained rainfall are expected to boost Seed Co sales volumes. In July this year, Zimbabwe’s leading seed producer commissioned a US$12 million artificial maize seed drying …
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Govt repossesses idle farms The Chronicle 9/11/2021 Harare Bureau Government has withdrawn offer letters from two farmers in Manicaland Province who were not utilising the land. The land amounts to more than 600 hectares, which were acquired under the Land Reform Programme. In a notice yesterday Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister Dr …
Heatwave to get worse: Met Dept The Chronicle 9/11/2021 Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu,Senior Reporter THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has issued a heatwave warning, saying temperatures are set to further soar today before the country gets rains. Members of the public have also been urged to avoid the outdoors and stay hydrated all the time to avoid …
Avian flu: Zim on high alert 0 November 8, 2021 11:50 AM Source: Avian flu: Zim on high alert | The Herald Dr Nyika Sifelani Tsiko Agric Editor Zimbabwe is on high alert following an outbreak of bird flu in South Africa’s Overberg area of the Western Cape that has led to the mass death of wild …
Millers, Banks Pull Out Of $5.5 Billion Wheat Deal Pindula 6/11/2021 Payments to wheat farmers for the 2021 season are likely to be delayed after millers, who had pledged $5.5 billion to complement government funds, were scandalised by a parliamentary report which left them exasperated. The report, by the portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture, and …
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“There’s so much land available, so many opportunities for horticulture” Carolize Jansen9 8/11/2021 A common thread to the first investment forum arranged by the Horticultural Development Council was the importance of an enabling environment whose impact cannot be underestimated, noted moderator Waddilove Sansole, agricultural project manager in Southern Africa, as well as a lot of …
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Zera increases local currency fuel price by 12% The Chronicle 5/11/2021 Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has increased the pump price of diesel and petrol in local currency by margins between 11,7 percent and 12,1 percent with effect from today. According to a public notice issued by the energy …
Land corruption — Tainted heads must roll, roll The Chronicle 6/11/2021 It is officially stated Government has reviewed the policy on allocation of vacant land and restructured the provincial and district lands committees to curb rampant corruption Stephen Mpofu, Perspective IN a no-holds-barred editorial comment in these columns three days ago, Chronicle came out guns …
Matobo farmers score big with small grains The Chronicle 8/11/2021 Izithukuthuku Ziyimpilo chairperson Ms Adis Ndlovu shows their products Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Chronicle Reporter MEMBERS of a farming group, Izithukuthuku Ziyimpilo based in Matobo District have managed to record significant yields through small grains production. The farmers were previously producing mainly maize in their fields but …
Can CSC be revived? The Chronicle 8/11/2021 Prosper Ndlovu, Business editor SOMETIME in December 2020, the Government moved to avert the liquidation of the Cold Storage Company (CSC) by placing it under a corporate rescue plan in terms of the Insolvency Act while facilitating its revival. Corporate rescue, also known as business rescue or judicial …