The last time white Zimbabwean farmer Rob Smart left his land, it was at gunpoint, forced out in June by riot police armed with teargas and AK-47 assault rifles. He returned on Thursday to ululations […]
HARARE – Cotton farmers who have been struggling to access mobile payment due to lack of network in their remote areas can now access the facility after the Cotton Marketers Association and a local telecommunications […]
THE government has started a land audit to cut farm sizes, flush out multiple farm owners and correct some of the mistakes from its chaotic land reform programme. The effort is an attempt by the […]
An American research team set tongues wagging in South Africa this weekend when they called on South Africa to learn a lesson from the Robert Mugabe regime, in order to avoid becoming a “second Zimbabwe” […]
HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An extended dry season, runaway wildfires and a lack of foreign currency for maize seed, fertilizer and fuel suggest Zimbabwe’s small-scale farmers may face a tough growing season ahead, officials […]
Farmers, including those in maize production, have been urged to concentrate on increasing yields to boost agricultural production which provides upstream and downstream benefits to the economy. One of the country’s top seed manufacturing companies, […]
MATEBELELAND province Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) chair, Innocent Winston Baggage has warned the country was heading for a disastrous 2018-19 farming season if government did not put steps to protect farmers from current diesel shortages […]
With the country this year expecting to produce 140 000 metric tonnes of wheat against a national requirement of 400 000 metric tonnes per year, the government has moved in to help in acquiring irrigation […]
Zimbabwe is reportedly now “food secure” and is likely not going to import maize as farmers have delivered over 1 million tons to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) after a “successful Command Agriculture Programme”. According […]
Zimbabwe would soon host the first International Horticulture and Floriculture trade show, HortiFlor, as the nation seeks to boost exports and become once again one of Africa’s top horticulture exporters. “Zimbabwe will, in a relatively […]
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