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President calls for modern agric technologies use     President Mnangagwa shares a joke with personnel of Zimbabwe Agricultural Show overall stand winner, SeedCo, (from left) commercial director Walter Chigodora, marketing manager Locadia Ganjani, chief agronomist Dr John Basera and sales manager Beauty Magiya in Harare yesterday Elita Chikwati, Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called on …

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Government to continue to review agricultural producer prices    Chronicle 24/8/2019 President Mnangagwa Elita Chikwati, Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT will continue to revise agricultural producer prices to ensure maximum benefits to farmers and viability of the industry, President Mnangagwa has said. He also assured farmers that Government had put in place measures to ensure a successful 2019/20 summer …

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Pest control policy proposed Herald 23/8/2019   Columbus Mabika Herald Reporter There is need for the Government to come up with a policy framework compelling seed houses to treat their seeds before placing them on the market as part of measures to control army worm which has wreaked havoc on the maize crop in Sub-Saharan …

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Farming preparations begin  Herald 23/8/2019   Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau The Midlands Province has submitted its provincial Command Agriculture and Presidential inputs requirements with the relevant ministry and is now expecting to receive its share ahead of the 2019-2020 farming season, an official has said. Midlands provincial crop and livestock officer Mrs Medline Magwenzi said …

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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Plaudits for tobacco farmers for record 2019 output  Chrinicle 23/8/2019   Local tobacco farmers continue to impress even when the chips are down. The country, including the traditionally wet tobacco-growing Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East and Manicaland provinces, received normal to below normal rainfall in the 2018/19 agricultural season.  This adversely affected rain-fed …

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‘Use artificial insemination to rebuild herds’    Herald 22/8/2019 Elita Chikwati, Harare Bureau Smallholder farmers have been urged to consider artificial insemination as a way of rebuilding their herds which have been reduced by tick-borne diseases. Artificial insemination is the process of collecting semen from a male animal with desired traits and manually depositing them into …

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Farmers urged to grow more pineapples   Herald 21/8/2019  Chimanimani and parts of Chipinge are ideal for the production of pineapples. Chipo Katsidzira Manicaland Correspondent FARMERS in Manicaland Province have been challenged to increase pineapple production following the opening of a canning plant in Mutare. A Mutare-based food processing and canning company, Associated Foods in …

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Mazowe Prison Farm gets irrigation boost   Herald 21/8/2019  Commissioner-General Zimondi Lynn Munjanja Herald Reporter Agriculture production at Mazowe Prison Farm received a boost yesterday when Aotea Global Company donated a water pump that uses neither electric power nor fuel. The rare pump, which is part of the company’s new technology for African solutions, can …

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