Agriculture Reporter
Lumpy Skin Disease is a specified viral disease of cattle transmitted by biting insects and characterised by nodular swellings on the skin and other parts of the body. The disease occurs in Zimbabwe and other southern and eastern African countries. The nodules may develop into abscesses which

Agriculture Reporter
Harare Metropolitan Acting Governor Mr Alfred Tome has challenged the private sector to partner the Zimbabwe Prison Service in its agriculture projects to help it boost production in its farms.

Agriculture Reporter
Tobacco growers have sold a collective 121 million kg of tobacco worth US$449 million since the opening of the selling season in February.
This is an increase from the volumes that had been sold during the same period last year. Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board statistics show that

Piety Mukuyu Business Reporter
BURLEY tobacco sales have surpassed last season’s figures by 80 percent, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has revealed.
Statistics released by TIMB  recently show that a total of 260 812 kilogrammes of burley have been sold compared

Agriculture Reporter
The winter wheat planting deadline of May 15 has passed with few farmers having planted the crop. Most farmers failed to meet the planting deadline due to unavailability of funding.  Others have, however, shifted from wheat due to the high risk associated with the crop to other winter crops like

Agriculture Reporter
Tobacco farmers say Class B buyers have allegedly resurfaced at the tobacco auction floors, a move farmers say negatively affects the pricing of the crop.

Agriculture Reporter
FLUE-CURED tobacco deliveries have for the fourth successive season surpassed the 100 million kilogramme mark hitting 107 million kg on the 55th day of the marketing season.
The auctioned tobacco fetched US$400 million and was sold at an average price of US$3, 71 per kg.

Agriculture Reporter
Farmers have called on the Government to consider subsidising the price of fertiliser to reduce production costs. The call was made at the Zimbabwe Indigenous Women Farmers Trust meeting in

Agriculture Reporter
The Veterinary Field Services Department yesterday said there has been a significant improvement in the lumpy skin disease situation countrywide with the new outbreak figures declining since a major

Agriculture Reporter
Tobacco growers have accused Regal Insurance of effecting stop-order deductions from their sales accounts when they did not sign any insurance contracts with the company. The Tobacco Industry and

Masvingo Bureau
Nearly 150 prospective sugar cane farmers in Chiredzi have accused Tongaat Hullet of deliberately stalling the development of 4 000 hectares of virgin land in the Lowveld into sugar cane