Category: Newspaper Articles

Kadoma Agric Show in re-engagement drive Herald 5/9/2019   Heather Charema in Chegutu The newly-elected Kadoma Agricultural Show executive has started re-engaging stakeholders, who had stopped exhibiting, to consider returning for this year’s edition slated for September 26. Organisations that had pulled out of the show include Arex, Seed Co, National Foods, Nyaradzo, Cairns, Doves, …

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Masvingo agric preps take a gear up   Herald 5/9/2019  Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent Preparations for the 2019 Masvingo Provincial Agricultural Show slated for September 26 to 29 have begun in earnest, with traditional exhibitors already attending to their stands. When The Herald visited the show grounds on Tuesday, workman were busy making touch-ups on …

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GreenFuel doubles ethanol production   Herald 5/9/2019  The Greenfuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje. Takunda Maodza Manicaland Bureau Chief ETHANOL producer GreenFuel has doubled production to 380 000 litres a day since the introduction of the blending ratio E20, saving the country US$10 million a month in fuel imports. Fuel that is consumed in Zimbabwe is …

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Presidential Inputs Scheme pays dividends   Herald 5/9/2019  Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland Bureau COTTON farmers in Chipinge recorded high yields this season courtesy of the Presidential Inputs Scheme which enticed many to take up production of the white gold. Farmers have been receiving free cotton inputs under the scheme as part of efforts to increase the …

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Legislator in drive to save Beitbridge livestock from drought    Chronicle 5/9/2019 Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau  BEITBRIDGE’s proportional representation legislator, Cde Lisa Singo, has engaged businesses and organisations dealing with animal products to avail stock feed to the district where over 500 head of cattle have succumbed to drought since the start of the 2018-19 farming …

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Letters to the Editor: Environment protection and national security challenges    Chronicle 5/9/2019 Johnson Gonerenda, Correspondent The world over — the question of balance between equitable and sustainable resource exploitation has become central.  The emergence in our time of matters such as greenhouse carbon emissions and competing theories on global warming, its causes, effects and extent …

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Speedily craft Tugwi-Mukosi irrigation plan, Govt urged    Herald 4/9/2019 Minister Chadzamira George Maponga Masvingo Bureau Government has been urged to speedily craft the Tugwi-Mukosi irrigation master plan to enable communities in Masvingo to start benefiting from idle water in Zimbabwe’s largest inland water body. The call comes as concerns continue to grow across the …

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Byo dam levels drop 42%    Chronicle 4/9/2019 The Bulawayo City Council Nqobile Tshili,Chronicle Reporter  BULAWAYO’s dam levels have dropped to 42 percent at a time when water consumption has drastically increased above daily limits after council suspended the water shedding exercise in July. The Bulawayo City Council has since warned that it might be …

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