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Millers welcome wheat flour restriction December 14, 2016 Business Mr Tafadzwa Musarara Oliver Kazunga, Senior business ReporterTHE move by the Government to scrap imported wheat flour from the Open General Import Licence will boost wheat production as well as improve business for the milling industry, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has said. The millers have …
Free cotton inputs set to catapult production December 14, 2016 Business Harare BureauZIMBABWE’S cotton output is forecast to jump over 400 percent to about 150 000 tonnes in the upcoming season after Government availed free inputs to over 150 000 farmers. Last year, Zimbabwe recorded an output of 30 000 tonnes, the lowest in more than …
Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger 2016-12-13 11:08 iStock Multimedia · User Galleries · News in PicturesSend us your pictures · Send us your stories Special Report NEWS Mugabe ‘odds-on favourite’ for 2018 polls – State media He may be shaky on his feet …
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When cash makes tobacco farmers sitting ducks December 13, 2016 Business Obert Chifamba Utterly gullible! Yes, incredibly naïve. This aptly sums up the behaviour of some tobacco farmers once they sell their produce and receive payment. For some strange reason, they close all their faculties of reasoning once they get their monies and impulse takes over.Every year, …
Avoid land invasions plant the crops Dec 11 2016 06:01 Peter Luhanga – Tractor spraying soybean field at spring RELATED ARTICLES A new alliance for the future of SA Agriculture dept forks out millions to Gupta media Land Focus: Community makes mealie magic Zim plans to compensate farmers for land grabs Don’t blame others …
Zim lawyer miraculously recovers from rhino attack December 10, 2016 in News ZIMBABWEAN lawyer, Tim Tanser (71), who was attacked by a rhino while game walking with his family at a lodge in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, has miraculously recovered as little hope was being given that he would survive. BY MUNESU NYAKUDYA He told NewsDay …
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Millers laud govt over wheat import restriction December 12, 2016 in Business, National, News Millers have lauded the government for putting restrictions on wheat imports, saying the move will spur local contractors to increase output. BY TATIRA ZWINOIRA In his 2017 National Budget statement last week, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa removed the importation of wheat from the open general …
Southern Zim not coping with climate change December 12, 2016 Business Bananas have helped people in Chibuwe earn more money even though the area does not have enough rain or water for the main food crops Jeffrey Gogo Climate StoryTHREE years ago Martha Chitore turned over a fifth of her one-hectare plot to growing bananas, hoping …
‘Educate communities on the importance of trees’ December 12, 2016 Top Stories Samantha Chigogo Herald CorrespondentSchoolchildren and communities should be conscientised on the importance of tree planting every year as part of Government’s initiatives to encourage communities to preserve nature countrywide, an official has said. This comes as TreeEco environmentalists, successfully engaged children at Danckwerts Primary School …
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