Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Cattle rustlers devise new method November 25, 2016 Local News Whinsley Masara, Chronicle ReporterPOLICE have sent a special unit to investigate cases where rustlers are shooting cattle and taking away the carcases in trucks in Esigodini and Mbembesi. Villagers have raised concern at the increasing number of incidents that they say started about two months ago in …
BCC seeks divine intervention for water crisis November 25, 2016 Headlines, Top Stories Auxilia Katongomara/Vusumuzi Dube, Chronicle ReportersTHE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said it is failing to stick to the 72 hour weekly water shedding schedule because of power outages. The local authority has resorted to seeking divine intervention, encouraging residents to pray for rain, as scientific …
Government gives ARDA wheat target Companies & Markets November 24, 2016By Own Correspondent Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa By Nyasha Chingono GOVERNMENT has set an annual wheat production target of 200 000 tonnes for the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA), which has entered into public, private partnerships (PPPs). ARDA has 22 farms covering 98 …
Raw milk production up 3,77 percent in ten months to October National Report November 24, 2016 By Own Correspondent Milk production in 2016 is projected to grow 8 percent this year from 57,53 million litres THE country continued to record marginal increases in raw milk supplies after the latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture showed that …
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Beitbridge Juicing targets 70% export growth November 24, 2016 in Business SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe’s fruit processing and juice blending division — Beitbridge Juicing — targets to increase exports by 70% in the next five years, buoyed by a variety of fruits production and a strong out-grower network of commercial and small-scale farmers. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI The company has …
Land invasions hinder modernisation of Zim farms November 24, 2016 in Feature Story, News Sitting astride his motorbike, farmer Craig Jonathan (Not real name), scans his lucrative banana field in Matabeleland South province, one of the country’s top growers of the long yellow tropical fruit, with distraught and weariness. BY TONDERAYI MATONHO “I have not known any other …
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Transform Africa through food, entrepreneurship November 24, 2016 Features, Opinion & Analysis Tony O. Elumelu CorrespondentThe global food security paradox is a very sad one. On the one hand there is more than enough food to feed the world’s seven billion inhabitants. There are surpluses in — mountains of grain; pyramids of meat; and rivers of milk …
Farming for the future: Rethinking youth livelihoods in agriculture November 24, 2016 Features, Opinion & Analysis Grace Mwaura Review Correspondent —Assume that three in five African youths are meaningfully engaged in agriculture. Assume they are investing across the value chain — in production, processing, manufacturing, distribution and, of course, are also the major consumers. This could not …
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Sable targets to produce 240 000t of fertiliser November 24, 2016 Business Sable Chemicals Conrad Mwanawashe Business Reporter— Zimbabwe’s sole producer of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, Sable Chemicals, targets to produce 240 000 tonnes by the 2018 /19 agricultural season based on a number of initiatives implemented during the remodelling of the business.To achieve the 240 000 tonnes …
Comesa states in study tour of India biotech cotton November 24, 2016 Business DELEGATES from five Comesa States that grow cotton have completed a one week experience-sharing and learning tour of biotechnology cotton farming, regulation and commercialisation in India. Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia participated in the study tour, which comprised Members of Parliament, bio-safety …
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