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SHDF rolls out ‘green’ plan for small enterprises newsday A LOCAL women empowerment organisation, Self-Help Development Foundation (SHDF) has rolled out several environmentally-friendly projects to help communities appreciate the importance of environmentally-sustainable economic activities. BY Kennedy Nyavaya The organisation said it had so far initiated projects in 11 regions across the country under its Enterprise …

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Wheat import bill to drop   Source: Wheat import bill to drop | Sunday Mail (Local News) Tanyaradzwa KutauraGovernment is expected to save $100 million through substituting a significant portion of wheat imports as it forecasts to produce between 180 000 metric tonnes (MT) and 200 000 (MT), which is half the country’s requirement for the …

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Provinces to get 1 million fingerlings   Source: Provinces to get 1 million fingerlings | The Sunday Mail June 10, 2018 Tanaka KadengeMore than 5 000 people are set to benefit from the second phase of the National Command Fisheries Programme that is being spearheaded through the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), it has been learnt. …

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Zim fights post-harvest losses – The Financial Gazette   Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri By Farai Mabeza ZIMBABWE is prioritising staple and horticultural crops in the fight against post-harvest losses, a top government official has said.This is being done under an African Union (AU) project called Capacity to increase AU member countries …

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Poultry meat sector improves – The Financial Gazette   Day old chicks prices per 100 increased to $97 from $66 last year. AN aggressive restocking of breeder birds by the poultry industry since the outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) last year has seen an increase of pre-laying broiler breeder birds from 130 000 in September …

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Egg supply to remain depressed   RECOVERY of the country’s egg market is expected to take longer as investments in layer breeding birds, though positive, have not reached the levels accomplished in the broiler sector.Prices are expected to remain high in the second to third quarters. The industry is against the importation of table eggs …

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Zimbabwe tobacco sales up – DailyNews Live STAFF WRITER  •  7 June 2018 2:34PM  •  0 comments HARARE – Zimbabwean farmers sold 167,14 million kg of the nation’s top export earner, tobacco, by Day 49 of the selling season, which is 20 percent shy of a current season target of 200 million kg, official data showed …

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