Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Zim to import high yielding pig breeding stock Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Piglets Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Farming Reporter ZIMBABWE will soon import 230 high yielding pig breeding stock from South Africa under a European Union funded Value Chain Alliance for Livestock Upgrading Empowerment (VALUE) project, a move aimed at improving the country’s pork production. Speaking at …
Zesa to ease load shedding . . . US$100m secured for arrears clearance Sunday Mail 26/1/2020 Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi Kuda Bwititi, Harare Bureau Zimbabwe is set to clear its arrears owed to Mozambique and South Africa after securing a US$100-million facility from Afreximbank and revive a 30-year trilateral agreement with the …
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Zimbabwe’s farmers lament: ‘The taxes are just too much’ 3 January 26, 2020 2:00 AM Source: Zimbabwe’s farmers lament: ‘The taxes are just too much’ | News | Al Jazeera Despite food crisis, Zimbabwe fields lie fallow as farmers grapple with drought, hyperinflation and onerous taxes. Zimbabwe’s agricultural minister told officials this week that the country has only …
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Cotton industry grapples with tough challenges Posted on January 24, 2020 by The Independent in Business THE cotton industry in Zimbabwe has grappled with a plethora of challenges threatening its viability. Southern Cotton Company (SCC) now says there have been drawbacks when it comes to acquiring export permits, with electricity challenges also prolonging the ginning period, which has its own …
Zimbabwe’s most valuable mineral: Groundwater Herald 24.1.2020 The Herald, 6 March, 1980 AT LEAST three million hectares of Zimbabwe’s land surface can be put under crops irrigated from groundwater (water extracted from springs, dug wells, boreholes and all other kinds of water point.) This area is far in excess of that under groundwater irrigation. …
Keyhole gardens a hit in Mt Darwin Herald 24.1.2020 The keyhole garden has become a must-have for homesteads in Mt Darwin as it provides families with fresh vegetables that are rich in micro-nutrients like zinc, iron and calcium Fungai Lupande, Mashonaland Central Bureau A keyhole garden, home-made tip-tap and a clay-moulded cooking stove have …
Letters to the Editor: What changes in temperature mean for Africa’s tsetse fly Chronicle 24/1/2020 Tsetse fly Elisha Bayode Are and John Hargrove In a world of changing climate, would nature’s insect “vampire”, the tsetse fly, perish or change its hunting ground? Like vampire bats, tsetse flies survive solely on the blood of vertebrate …
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Millers maize imports start arriving Chronicle 24/1/2020 Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube Oliver Kazunga, Acting Business Editor THE Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says maize bought using free funds has started arriving in the country with the association calling upon local cross border transporters to facilitate in transporting the grain. …
Tobacco farmers demand US$ payments By Newsday – January 22, 2020 BY FIDELITY MHLANGA Farmers of Zimbabwe’s top forex earner, tobacco, have called on authorities to pay them in hard currency when this year’s marketing season kicks off in the next few months. The southern African nation rakes in at least US$1 billion annually from tobacco exports. …
‘Feed shortages threaten local poultry products’ By Newsday – January 22, 2020 BY MTHANDAZO NYONI ZIMBABWE will likely experience an upsurge in both legal and illicit imports of cheap poultry products if local feed producers continue failing to access adequate maize as well as soyabean meal, a new report has revealed. A report compiled by the Livestock …
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