Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
LATE planted crops still have a chance of surviving as the rainfall season will go as far as April, the Meteorological Services Department — Agromet section has said. This, however, would depend on the

Herald  Reporter
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to bring on board the private sector into contract wheat farming following models that have brought success in tobacco and cotton.  Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made told the Senate on Thursday that wheat

Agriculture Reporter
POULTRY producers have appealed to the Agricultural Marketing Authority to review the ban on the imports of genetically modified maize saying it was severely affecting the industry. The producers said the cost of production has increased due to the shortage of grain. It now costs up to US$400 to import a tonne of maize up

Agriculture Reporter
GOVERNMENT is introducing new maize storage facility that will reduce infestation of the grain during storage. The training of manufacturing and testing of the silos is being done at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering Hatcliffe, while there will be trials on some farms. The metal silo is an airtight cylindrical metal structure

Agriculture Reporter
FARMERS have started delivering their tobacco to auction floors ahead of the opening of the 2013 selling season on Wednesday next week. Bookings for sales started on Monday. Tobacco Sales Floor managing director Mr James Mutambanesango said farmers were anxious to sell their crop. He said they had been booking

Herald Reporter
The condition of livestock in most parts of the country has improved significantly due to available grazing and supplementary feeding in drought-prone areas.The Zimbabwe Farmers Union crop and

Senior Agriculture Reporter
THE Tobacco Research Board yesterday encouraged tobacco farmers to replace leached nitrogen with additional side-dressing without delay once they noticed symptoms of leaching in their crop.

Senior Agriculture Reporter
THERE has been a proliferation of foliar fertilisers on the agricultural chemicals market in recent years. This has left many farmers struggling to understand why, how and when they should use them.

Senior Agriculture Reporter
ZIMBABWE will work towards exhausting all stocks of the paraquat herbicide in line with China’s research findings that the chemical is highly toxic and therefore unsuitable for continued use.

Boka Tobacco Floors says it is geared for this year’s selling season, which is likely to start next month.
Last year, the marketing season started in February and ended in July. As of December 2012, over 60

MBADA Diamonds has partnered the Zimbabwe Farmers Union to equip families resettled at Arda Transau with farming skills and inputs as a way of making them self-sufficient, an official said yesterday.