Category: Newspaper Articles

Mat North farmers benefit from Brazil loan facility August 13, 2016 Local News Pamela Shumba Senior ReporterFARMERS in Bubi, Matabeleland North province have received six tractors provided under Brazil’s $98 million More Food for Africa Programme. Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday commissioned the tractors in Mputshini resettlement area and emphasised the need to embrace development and utilise resources …

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The great chicken rip-off…A third of frozen chickens are just water  BUSINESS REPORTER 1 DAY AGO SHOPPERS are having the feathers pulled over their eyes when it comes to the R39 billion (US$2,7 billion) per year poultry industry. Chickens are big business in South Africa. Every day, more than 2,7 million chickens are eaten in South …

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  Beefy US$47m offer for CSC  SUNDAY MAIL REPORTER 1 DAY AGO Darlington Musarurwa Business EditorTHOUGH seemingly in the dumps, livestock producer and marketer the Cold Storage Company continues to attract suitors, with the latest being a consortium from the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and Rwanda, who are dangling a US$47 million investment for the business. The …

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Push to boost legumes production Companies & Markets August 12, 2016By Own Correspondent   Pulses, a subgroup of legumes, are plant species members of the Leguminosae family.   By Farai Mabeza     THE private sector must be roped in to drive the commercial production of pulses by farmers, agricultural experts said in Harare last week. …

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Why some approaches, technologies are not moving beyond early adopters August 11, 2016 in Business A lot can be learnt from remarkable ways through which African socio-cultural systems generated and shared knowledge. There were reliable conduits for sharing knowledge from one age group to another, one gender to another and one society to another.  Besides respected knowledge …

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Zim Herd Book holds 48th bull, heifer sale August 12, 2016 Business Despite the drought and other challenges, the Zimbabwe Herd Book 2016 National Bull and Heifer Sale attracted the best yielding yet of pedigree cattle and sheep at the national breed stock sale. The stock on offer at Mount Hampden Sale Pens on July 29, were …

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