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Foot-and-mouth disease wreaks havoc in Mash Central – NewsDay Zimbabwe   2-2 minutes FOOT-and-mouth disease has wreaked havoc in Mashonaland Central province’s eight districts after an outbreak, suspected to have originated in Mozambique, was recorded in June.Provincial veterinary officer Wiltmot Chikurunhe said Rushinga and Muzarabani districts were the worst affected. BY SIMBARASHE SITHOLE “The province’s …

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Bindura couple strikes gold through mushroom farming   4-4 minutes The Herald Mash Central Correspondent A BINDURA couple has struck gold through mushroom farming. Mrs Adline Karedzera and her husband, Norman, ventured into mushroom production after watching a Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation programme, ‘Green Studio’ after having tried farming other cash crops such as cotton, soya-beans …

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Farmers, veld fire preparedness   5-7 minutes The Herald Veld fires have become one of Zimbabwe’s greatest environmental challenges for the past decade, mostly affecting the farming community. These are blazes that get out of control, become wild, and in the process destroy extensive tracts of forests, grasslands, animals, people and their properties. This burning …

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Cotton helps Zim save $20m forex   3-4 minutes The Presidential Input Scheme has seen close to 400 000 farmers going to the fields and 400 000ha being put under cotton production The Herald Africa MoyoZIMBABWE has saved $20 million this year through the use of locally ginned seed in cooking oil and stock feed …

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Strategy to counter El Nino effects put in place   3-4 minutes The Chronicle Felex Share, Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT has come up with a major strategy to minimise the effects of erratic rains expected in the 2018/19 agricultural season, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri said yesterday. The grand plan, he said, includes …

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Command Livestock boosts stockfeed sales   1-2 minutes The Herald Manicaland Correspondent STOCKFEED companies in Manicaland have recorded a boom in feeds sales, thanks to the large number of farmers taking up Government’s Command lLvestock programme in the province. In an interview with The Herald at the just-ended Manicaland Agricultural Show, Grain Marketing Board (GMB) …

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Seed houses assure farmers   3-4 minutes The Herald ‘. . . early maturing varieties in stock’ Elita Chikwati and Mary MuradzikwaThe Zimbabwe Seed Trade Association has assured farmers that it has maize seed varieties suitable for the low rainfall predicted by weather experts for the 2018-19 summer season. The Meteorological Services Department last week …

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Why developing countries should boost small-scale farming   6-7 minutes The Herald Rachel Wynberg and Laura Pereira Industrial agriculture – farming that involves the intensive production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops – is one of the most environmentally destructive forms of land use. It depends on mechanisation and on inputs like synthetic fertiliser and …

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Govt to address poor agric productivity   2-3 minutes The Herald Lawrence Chitumba Mash Central Correspondent GOVERNMENT is committed to addressing issues of low farming productivity to ensure that food and nutrition security is attained among smallholder farmers, Mashonaland Central provincial administrator, Mr Cosmas Chiringa. Speaking at the launch of the district Presidential Inputs Support …

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