Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
High costs affect Zim competitiveness – November 17, 2017 THE country’s cost of liquidity, power, labour, water, transport and finance are abhorrent to competitiveness, a new report has shown. BY FIDELITY MHLANGA According to the Zimbabwe National Competitiveness Report (ZNCR) released by the National Economic Consultative Forum (NECF), liquidity cost was high due to transactions …
Call to mend Save Conservancy fence November 21, 2017 MANICALAND & MASH EAST Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland BureauFARMERS in Chipinge have called on Government and the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to expedite the mending of the double line boundary fence on the Save Conservancy to avoid more foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in the area. The …
Cattle farmers urged to go for artificial insemination November 21, 2017 MANICALAND & MASH EAST Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Manicaland BureauFARMERS in Chipinge have been urged to embrace artificial insemination (AI) to improve livestock breeds as a way of boosting incomes for smallholder producers. Artificial insemination is the process of collecting sperm cells from a male animal and manually depositing …
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Beware of bogus seed dealers, farmers warned November 21, 2017 MASVINGO & SOUTH-WEST Walter Mswazie Masvingo CorrespondentGovernment has advised farmers against buying seed from bogus dealers who are on the prowl, taking advantage of a surge in demand for agricultural inputs as the 2017-18 farming season begins. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister (Cropping) Mr Davis Marapira …
Farmers bemoan late Command Agric inputs November 21, 2017 MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Mash West BureauFARMERS in Mashonaland West Province are not happy with Agritex officers, whom they are accusing of frustrating them by delaying the distribution of Command Agriculture inputs as well as creating complications in the signing of contracts. For the greater part of …
Padenga 40pc shy of expected annual production target November 21, 2017 Business Padenga Holdings (Padenga), is 40 percent shy of its annual production target, two months away from the company’s financial year end Taurai Mangudhla Senior Business ReporterZimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed crocodilian skins and meat producer, Padenga Holdings (Padenga), is 40 percent shy of its annual …
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1,2m households receive maize seed November 21, 2017 Local News Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture ReporterThe distribution of inputs under the Presidential Well Wishers Agriculture Inputs Scheme (PWAIS) is going on smoothly with more than 1,2 million households across the country having received maize and small grains seed, a Cabinet Minister has said. The Presidential Well-Wishers Agriculture Inputs Scheme …
Farmers beef up livestock breeding skills November 21, 2017 Local News George Maponga Masvingo BureauMore than 200 A1 and A2 Zvishavane farmers have undergone a livestock rearing and breeding training programme that is expected to add value to their farming business. The training was organised by National Foods (Natfoods) and saw trainees receiving skills from experts in poultry, …
Govt warns fertiliser firms over prices November 21, 2017 Local News Deputy Minister Marapira Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Bureau—GOVERNMENT has warned fertiliser companies who benefited from the $56 million credit facility opened by Government through African-Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to support imports of fertiliser for the 2017/18 cropping season against unscrupulously increasing prices of the commodity. Fertiliser prices …
Mash West farmers start planting November 20, 2017 MASH WEST & MASH CENTRAL Mash West BureauTHOUSANDS of farmers in Mashonaland West and Central provinces have taken advantage of rains to start planting. Although irrigation farmers had started early September, rain-fed farming started in earnest last week in Makonde, Kariba, Guruve, Mazowe, Mhondoro, Bindura, Zvimba, Mhangura, Shamva, …