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Kariba water levels worsen Sunday Mail 2/2/2020 Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi Gabriel Masvora, News Editor WATER levels at Kariba Dam, home to the country’s biggest and only hydro-electric power station, have started going down. the dam is left with power generation water that is at one metre level, it has been learnt. …
Zacc probes GMB . . . Employees’ mealie meal allocation arrangement suspended . . . 60 percent of commodity being channelled to the black market Sunday Mail 2/2/2020 Dealers sell 20kg bags of mealie meal at Renkini Long Distance Bus terminus in Bulawayo last week. The mealie meal was being sold for $130 Dumisani …
Zimbabwe News: Ban on GM Corn Imports Lifted to Avert Famine 1 February 2, 2020 2:05 AM Source: Zimbabwe News: Ban on GM Corn Imports Lifted to Avert Famine – Bloomberg Zimbabwe has quietly lifted a ban on imports of genetically modified corn for the first time in 12 years as the southern African nation begins to …
Zimbabwe News: South African Corn Imports Hit 7-Year High 0 February 3, 2020 2:00 AM Source: Zimbabwe News: South African Corn Imports Hit 7-Year High – Bloomberg South Africa exported 13,688 tons of corn to Zimbabwe in the week ended Jan. 24, the highest weekly amount since Dec. 2013, in a sign the drought-stricken country may finally be …
Letters to the Editor: High premiums stall uptake of agriculture insurance in Zimbabwe Chronicle 31/1/2020 Elita Chikwati, Harare Bureau Natural disasters have often affected the agriculture sector with most farmers especially smallholder farmers registering huge losses as they would have not insured their crops, livestock and properties. Insurance provides peace of mind in the event …
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Storm-hit Zimbabweans endure another rainy season in risky homes 0 January 31, 2020 2:02 AM Source: Storm-hit Zimbabweans endure another rainy season in risky homes – Reuters CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Albert Sabawe, 25, is waiting to eat lunch, resting against the wall of his flimsy wooden home in a small village in eastern Zimbabwe’s Chimanimani …
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GMB stocks depleted by Staf reporter 1 hr ago | 248 Views ZIMBABWE’s hunger situation has escalated to unsustainable levels as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) stocks have depleted. The chairman of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Tafadzwa Musarara told Business Times that there is need to import maize to avert hunger. “Though the country is …
Cottco gets new board since 2016 Herald 30/1/2020 Business Reporter THE Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco), the country’s largest financier of the cotton crop, has a new board to be chaired by academic, Dr Abraham Babs Nyoni. Dr Nyoni, a senior lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology will be deputised by …
Double-edged sword of drought, machete gangs Herald 30/1/2020 White elephant . . . Nearly three years since Tugwi-Mukosi Dam was commissioned, there has been much talk about coming up with a Master Development Plan, which seems to take eternity to draw Lovemore Chikova, Development Matrix Zimbabwe’s development is anchored on many variables, but mining …
Storm cripples citrus project Herald 30/1/2020 Shashe community citrus project agronomist Mr Godman Moyo shows some of the wilting fruit trees. – Pictures: Thupeyo Muleya Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau While drought-prone Matabeleland South has turned to Government-sponsored irrigation schemes, stray elephants and natural disasters like hailstorms have not been kind to them. They have …