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Cottco ready for marketing season May 22, 2017 Business Dr Mangudya Business ReporterRESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr John Mangudya said The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe has mobilised enough resources to buy cotton during this marketing season. The Government, through the RBZ spent at least $40 million to finance cotton this season and Dr Mangudya assured …
Livestock boost for Beitbridge May 22, 2017 Local News Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge BureauThe Catholic Relief Services has availed $37 000 to spearhead a goat production programme to economically empower 2 000 small-scale farmers here. Beitbridge Rural District Council chief executive officer Mr Peter Moyo said the project will run for 18 months in all the 15 rural …
Growing of legumes: killing 2 birds with one stone May 22, 2017 Opinion & Analysis The recommended A-frame groundnuts drying structure designed by ICRISAT Researchers Pamenus TusoAS agricultural scientists push for the growing of legumes and in particular groundnuts in semi-arid regions, they are killing two birds with one stone; encouraging the growing of drought tolerant …
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Comesa seeks maize trade harmonisation May 22, 2017 Business Senior Business ReporterTHE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) plans to implement a framework that will facilitate flexibility in the trading of maize in the bloc by member states. Experts from Comesa secretariat and heads of bureaus of standards from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda recently …
Govt to build hydro power stations May 22, 2017 Local News President Mugabe From George Maponga in MasvingoTHE Government is working flat out to ensure the country produces enough power to meet domestic demand with 17 mini-hydro power stations earmarked for dams throughout the country. President Mugabe last week said besides installing a mini-hydro power station …
Bureaucratic bungling delays wheat planting May 19, 2017 in Analysis, Comment, Opinion May 1, which traditionally marks the start of the winter wheat planting season, has now come and gone and yet a lot of bureaucratic bungling, shortage of fuel and planting seed has bogged down the planting of wheat on the ground. Agriculture Correspondent. Agriculture minister Joseph Made …
Safari players await US decision on ivory ban May 19, 2017 in Business THE Safari Operators’ Association of Zimbabwe (Soaz) is awaiting a decision by the United States over an ivory ban which has crippled its operations and severely reduced its revenue base, businessdigest has learnt. By Kudzai Kuwaza The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced …
Food security, poverty alleviation achievable Opinions May 18, 2017By Own Correspondent Noble prize winner, Amartya Sen By Vince Musewe ANY country which fails to feed its citizens and minimise poverty through social security nets is a failure. Zimbabwe, despite having all the necessary resources and ideas, is failing to do just that. We need a new …
Poor agriculture output affects Zim-Asset Companies & Markets May 18, 2017By Staff Reporter Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister, Joseph Made NYANGA –The Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset) has failed to achieve its targets due to underperformance of the agricultural sector, a government official said last week.Launched in 2013 as the successor to the …
Tick-borne disease outbreak Companies & Markets May 18, 2017By Staff Reporter Paddy Zhanda, the deputy minister of Agriculture AN outbreak of a tick-borne disease, theileriosis, in Mashonaland East and Central provinces has claimed hundreds of cattle, leaving villagers distraught.Theileriosis is a disease caused by a species of theileria, a blood-borne parasite that only affects cattle and …