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Luck runs out for poachers March 10, 2017 Crime & Courts Tafadzwa Zimoyo Senior Court ReporterTwo poachers who pleaded guilty to killing three duikers and a hare at Mucheche Farm in Beatrice were asked to pay a fine of $400 or face two months jail term. The duo were found in possession of two rifles and ammunition which …
Crop and livestock market update March 10, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis Crop SectorDespite the late rains and the Fall armyworm which will negatively affect yields, maize production for the 2016 /2017 season is anticipated to be substantially higher than in 2016 and preliminary forecasts are that the harvest may be between 1,2 – 1,4 million …
Cotton farmers appeal to Govt for help March 10, 2017 Business Most cotton farmers have expressed displeasure with the poor and inadequate input package being provided by their contractors Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterSEVERAL cotton farmers contracted by Parrogate in the Lowveld and Manicaland areas have expressed displeasure with the poor and inadequate input package being provided …
War vets cry foul as govt repossesses idle land By ZimSitRep_M | March 9, 2017 2 Comments Source: War vets cry foul as govt repossesses idle land – DailyNews Live Farayi Machamire 9 March 2017 HARARE – The War Veterans’ ministry has bemoaned the repossession of idleland parcelled out to the ex-freedom fighters under the violent landreform programme. …
Zimbabwe stores sufficient reserves, suspends grain imports March 10, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa By Prosper Ndlovu in MaphisaTHE Government has suspended grain imports as the country has enough strategic grain reserves with more deliveries from the anticipated bumper harvest expected to boost food security, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday. Increased yields are …
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Government plans US$140m wheat programme Companies & Markets March 9, 2017By Own Correspondent Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Joseph Made THE government’s special maize production programme, which planned 400 000 hectares of the staple crop, only saw about 38 percent of that target planted by the second week of February, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told Parliament on …
Majority of Zimbabe’s dams full Companies & Markets March 9, 2017By Tabitha Mutenga, Features and Supplements Editor Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Change Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, AT least 85 percent of the country’s major dams are full and spilling after heavy, above-normal rains were received last month.The country’s major dams continue to record significant increases as …
Power tariff review could fall afoul of the law Companies & Markets March 9, 2017By Own Correspondent Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries President Busisa Moyo By Nyasha Chingono Legal experts have warned that a tariff review by the country’s power utility, ZESA Holdings, would be illegal in the absence of a decision on the current tariff level …
Leather strategy fails to rescue sector Companies & Markets March 9, 2017By Staff Reporter Industry Minister Mike Bimha A FIVE-YEAR Zimbabwe National Leather Development Strategy (ZNLDS), launched in 2013, has not turned around fortunes in the leather sector as current indications are that the situation has further deteriorated.Since the turn of the millennium, the leather sector …
Zimbabwe budgets at least US$62 million for corn purchases in 2017 National Report March 8, 2017By Own Correspondent Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Joseph Made ZIMBABWE has set aside US$62 million to buy corn from farmers after plantings of the grain increased 55 percent from a year earlier, and will seek funds for additional purchases, according …
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