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
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
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
Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
