Elita Chikwati  Agriculture Reporter
Government is formulating a livestock policy that will force abattoirs and butcheries to finance livestock production and boost the national herd, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation

Agriculture Reporter
Crops are now stressed with others showing signs of yellowing owing to erratic and excessive rains in different parts of the country, the Zimbabwe Farmers Union has said. The union’s latest update on livestock and crop situation show that rains

Agriculture Reporter
Government is working towards establishing a legislative framework to promote contract farming across all agricultural commodities.
Speaking at the international paprika marketing workshop organised by the

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
Cotton contractors are counting their loses after failing to recover US$19 million from the US$42 million they had invested to boost  production.
A number of cotton growers side marketed their crop in breach of contracts

Agriculture Reporter
THE World Health Organisation’s reasons for proposing a ban on tobacco on health grounds and for causing environmental damage in its production are designed to harm developing countries, the Tobacco Industry Development Support Institute has said. TIDSI executive director Mr Jeffrey

Agriculture Reporter
THE dry weather conditions have adversely affected crops in different parts of the country, Agritex has said. The early-planted crop is reported to be better off, while the late-planted crop, which is now at flowering stage has been severely affected. According to Agritex, crops in light soils are already

Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT and stakeholders in the cotton industry should address the issue of prices this year to prevent disturbances that rocked the marketing season last year, Gokwe North Senator Tariro Mtingwende said yesterday. Sen Mtingwende said this while debating President Mugabe’s speech during

Agriculture Reporter
The prices tobacco buyers are offering at the auction floors this year have firmed with some of the crop fetching prices above US$5 a kilogramme.
Last year prices, failed to go beyond the ceiling of US$4,99/kg although some contract tobacco went over US$5/kg. Throughout the 2012 tobacco

Agriculture Reporter

Lumpy skin disease outbreak is high this season with over 120 deaths  and more than 1 000 cases recorded in a single week, the Department of Veterinary Fields Services has said.

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
Tobacco growers pocketed a collective US$784 000 from the sale of 265 000 kilogrammes of flue cured tobacco on the first day of the 2013 tobacco selling season. The crop was sold on Wednesday

Agriculture Reporter
FARMERS should continue weeding their fields. The weeds compete with crops for sunlight and nutrients.
According to the Foundation for Farming’s conservation agriculture handbook removing weeds when they