Farming & Enviroment

Industry and Commerce minister Mangaliso Ndlovu has said Zimbabwe is losing $100 million annually to wheat imports due to failure by farmers to produce enough stocks. Officiating at an exhibition gala organised by the Grain […]

Zimbabwe is facing the grim prospect of severe food shortages after it received the lowest rainfall amounts in 40 years. According to regional hunger watchdog, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), the drought […]

BREAD can be baked from locally produced wheat without blending it with imported ingredients as widely believed, it has emerged. Players in the baking industry are always knocking on Government doors seeking foreign currency to […]

Former ZANU PF politburo member and Minister for Higher and Tertiary Education, Jonathan Moyo claim that on Monday soldiers visited his farm under the guise of a ZBC news crew assessing the progress and challenges […]

Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement ministry has established a 99-year lease Help Desk. In a statement Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri said the help desk will […]

FAILURE by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to make a commitment on the currency it will use to pay tobacco farmers during the forthcoming marketing season has caused uncertainty in the industry, insiders have […]

The 150 percent fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrestacross Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week. Worse is likely to come. Combined with poor harvests, […]

The country’s horticultural exports recorded significant growth in 2018 after more than $112 million worth of produce was exported, up from $50,9 million exported in 2017. According to Zimstat statistics provided by ZimTrade, the jump […]

HARARE, Jan 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bensen Muzamba knows the cost of water only too well. He runs a maize farm outside Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, but because of poor rains at the start of […]

Farmers are bullish over prospects of a decent harvest in the 2018-2019 summer cropping season despite rising input costs and inclement weather conditions. El Nino weather conditions that are currently affecting most of Southern Africa […]