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Agro-forestry: Missing link in nutritional, food security discourse March 18, 2018 8:30 AM Source: Agro-forestry: Missing link in nutritional, food security discourse | Daily News HARARE – At a glimpse, Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands region seems lush and verdant. But a closer check depicts a land degraded by overgrazing, unsustainable cropping …
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Point of convergence: The agriculture consultant and the accountant Tapuwa MashangwaONE of the things I have grown to appreciate, like and enjoy is meeting new people. Every new conversation means new ideas and with each passing day my brain is not the same as it was before. That is the beauty of sharing information …
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Government shifts focus to winter crop Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Midlands CorrespondentGOVERNMENT has expressed confidence that the country will have a bumper harvest in the winter cropping season after it received late rains in February and March, which increased inflows into major water bodies. Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Davis Marapira said Government was now …
Zinwa seeks $70m for dam refurbishments 0 March 19, 2018 1:39 PM Source: Zinwa seeks $70m for dam refurbishments | Daily News HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is seeking $70 million for the refurbishment of major dams which, if further delayed, could see them collapsing. This came out when Zinwa management appeared before …
Cheers as Nyanyadzi irrigation rehab boosts output Climate Story Jeffrey GogoWidow Dorcas Jena has lived off farming at the Nyanyadzi Irrigation Scheme of Chimanimani in eastern Zimbabwe since 1976 when she was married, growing mostly the maize staple on her one acre plot. And until 18 years ago when a tropical cyclone called Eline …
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Dairibord mulls Malawi business closure Enacy Mapakame Business ReporterMilk processor, Dairibord Holdings Limited, will make a decision on the fate of its Malawi division in the next six months after the unit continued on a perennial loss making path. Finance director Mercy Ndoro, told an analysts briefing on Wednesday that Dairibord Malawi had continued …
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VIPs buy 1300 farms Financial Gazette 15.3.2018 Tabitha Mutenga Supplements Editor A NUMBER of ruling ZANU-PF party, government and military officials have privately acquired over 1 200 farms, as Zimbabwe’s land tenure system remains precarious, The Financial Gazette has learnt. The development also comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has stressed that the agrarian reforms …
Expedite farms compensation Financial Gazette 15.3.2018 WHILE government has been prevaricating over issuance of bankable 99-year leases to resettled farmers to enable them to borrow from banks to finance their operations, the political elites have been privately negotiating with dispossessed farmers to secure titles to their own land. At least 1285 farms have been privately …
Mugabe fights to retain Mazowe farm newsday FORMER President Robert Mugabe’s family business, Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, which was in January this year provisionally ordered off Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, to pave way for three small-scale gold miners, has once again approached the High Court pushing for the matter to be finalised. BY CHARLES LAITON …