Climate change talks: Are the negotiations beneficial to Africa?

Climate change talks: Are the negotiations beneficial to Africa?   20/1/2019 The Chronicle The growing frequency and unpredictable nature of natural disasters such as floods and droughts is a striking reminder and warning that climate change is a serious phenomenon that has the capacity to destabilise the world. In recognition of this, the global community …

Lands ministry sets up help desk

Lands ministry sets up help desk    19/2/2019 Source: Lands ministry sets up help desk | Daily News HARARE – Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement ministry has established a 99-year lease Help Desk. In a statement Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri said the help desk will facilitate processing of …

Small-scale egg producers’ output drops 4%

Small-scale egg producers’ output drops 4% – NewsDay Zimbabwe   19/2/2019 BY MTHANDAZO NYONI ZIMBABWE’S egg production tumbled by 4% to 36,4 million dozens in 2018, as output by small-scale producers fell, according to a fourth quarter performance report by the Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA). In the report, ZPA chairperson Solomon Zawe said the large-scale …

Command Agric to continue — Shiri

Command Agric to continue — Shiri   19/2/2019 Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri greets senior members of the directing staff before his presentation on Agriculture at National Defence University in Harare yesterday The Herald Elita Chikwati and Ellen Chasokela GOVERNMENT says it will continue assisting farmers through the Command Agriculture …

14 Tugwi-Mukosi Dam projects for Masvingo

14 Tugwi-Mukosi Dam projects for Masvingo   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Walter Mswazie recently in Chivi GOVERNMENT has identified 14 areas of investment to be exploited at the Tugwi-Mukosi Dam in Masvingo province with a detailed framework of how the projects would be implemented having already been done, a senior Government official has said. Speaking on …

Heavy rains cause nationwide destruction

Heavy rains cause nationwide destruction   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter HEAVY rains accompanied by strong winds have left a trail of destruction across the country, the Civil Protection Unit (CPU), said yesterday. In an interview, CPU director Mr Nathan Nkomo said most low lying areas across the country’s 10 provinces were affected …

Quartet found with 96kg ivory

Quartet found with 96kg ivory   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Esinathy Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter FOUR suspected poachers were arrested at Cross Dete Business Centre in Hwange District and elephant tusks weighing 96 kilogrammes were recovered from them. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers and the police who were conducting patrols along the Mabale-Hwange road …

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers eDuzeNet 18/2/2019 Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide. In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 families at Stoncroft Farm had homesteads torched by the owner of the farm which they occupied …

Zimbabwe maize harvest forecast at 900 000t

Zimbabwe maize harvest forecast at 900 000t eDuzeNet 18/2/2019 ZIMBABWE expects to harvest 900 000 tonnes of maize this year. This is an upward revision from the 800 000 tonnes initially forecast but is below the 1.8 million tonnes, the country consumes on an annual basis. Initially, Zimbabwe had projected to harvest around 800,000 tonnes …