Category: Newspaper Articles

Of wrong farming methods, natural resource mismanagement March 14, 2017 Business Obert Chifamba Agri-Insight UNTIL last Friday, I did not know that shifting cultivation is still being practised and that stream bank cultivation had also changed to “river” bed cultivation. Yes, this is happening in Mafungautsi State Forest, 11 kilometres south of Gokwe Town in the Midlands …

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Command agriculture under scrutiny By ZimSitRep_M | March 13, 2017 0 Comment THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture will this week tour different agricultural colleges across the country to assess gaps in implementation of government’s command agriculture, as well as the crop yields under the programme. Source: Command agriculture under scrutiny – NewsDay Zimbabwe March 13, 2017 By VENERANDA LANGA Committee …

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Difficult times demand command management March 13, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis VP Mnangagwa Takunda Maodza Assistant News EditorIT took President Mugabe’s remarks one day during a meeting with senior officials “tosvika riiniko tichitenga chigabe?” to jostle officials across State bureaucracy to think Command Agriculture. That was sometime around August 2016. It was then that a …

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Preparing for bumper harvest March 13, 2017 Business John Basera and Dr. Gorden Mabuyaye Bumper HarvestSeveral studies have shown that grain storage loss can cost farmers 25 percent-30 percent of their yield for the season in most cases due to high moisture, pest damage, fungal/bacterial infections, and rodent damage. In other words, it means out of …

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Farmers urged to open bank accounts ahead of harvesting March 13, 2017 Business Minister Joseph Made Prosper Ndlovu, Business EditorAGRICULTURE, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made has called on farmers across the country to open bank accounts ahead of harvesting to ensure smooth payment for grain deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB). Zimbabwe expects …

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Ingwizi, Antelope estates to produce 20 000t maize March 13, 2017 Business Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa inspects maize at ARDA Ingwizi Estate last Thursday Prosper Ndlovu/Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Business ReportersTHE Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) is working on expanding the area under maize at its Antelope and Ingwizi estates to 2 000 hectares by year-end. This will …

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Fall armyworm starts attacking SA soya bean crops Mar 10 2017 05:02  A farm owner shows the armyworm on a leaf of corn crop on a farm in Onderstepoort just north of Pretoria. (Gulshan Khan, AFP) RELATED ARTICLES ‘Pest group’ to tackle armyworm invasion – govt UN meeting warns of ‘huge’ armyworm threat Armyworm invading …

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Poultry industry records 1% slump March 10, 2017 in Business THE poultry industry in Zimbabwe recorded a 1% slump in 2016 after producing 74,8 million broiler day old chicks, an industry official has said. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI Zimbabwe Poultry Association chairperson, Solomon Zawe, revealed in an industry update that sales and retentions of day old chicks in …

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