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Tichaona Zindoga and George Maponga in MASVINGO President Mugabe yesterday described Government’s Special Maize Programme for Import Substitution, also known as Command Agriculture, as a “beautiful programme” that was key to ensuring food security in the country.
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“You do not know me,” said tortoise. “I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.” This snippet is from celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s best-selling novel: “Things Fall Apart” where the writer tells how folklore explains how the tortoise got its shells.
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Herbert Zharare Deputy News Editor The successful launch of Command Agriculture and Presidential Input Support Schemes might be a panacea to the revival of the fading concept of Growth Points in Zimbabwe.
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Africa Moyo in VICTORIA FALLS GOVERNMENT is working flat out to ensure the country becomes a hub of industrialisation, commerce and international trade as part of a well-orchestrated move to empower its citizens to become masters of their own destiny, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
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Buhle Nkomo “I am impressed with drip irrigation technology because it means growing more for less. It is economic, it saves water and fertiliser, involving less labour while attracting good yields,” says Shepard Goremusandu (49), a small scale tobacco farmer from Karoi in Mashonaland West Province.
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Sydney Kawadza Senior Reporter— SOCIAL media was yesterday abuzz with reactions to the statement by Commander Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga calling on turncoat detractors of the Command Agriculture Programme to stop their subversive activities. The statement, which was apparently directed at Higher and
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Felex Share Senior Reporter— Government has a database of all beneficiaries of Command Agriculture and farmers have since started repaying their loans, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. He told The Herald yesterday that there was no going back on Command Agriculture.
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Nyemudzai Kakore Herald Correspondent Command Agriculture should not be politicised as it is a Government initiative aimed at producing food for the country to achieve sustainable food security, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Mr Ringson Chitsiko, said yesterday.
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Mabasa Sasa Editor, Sunday Mail— THE nonsensical behaviour by turncoat Government officials who attack State programmes like Command Agriculture can no longer be tolerated and must stop, Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga said yesterday. In an exclusive interview with The Herald in Harare, Gen
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Felex Share Senior Reporter Government has secured a $487 million facility to fund the 2017-18 agricultural season and movement of inputs under the Command Agriculture and Presidential Input Support schemes is expected to begin next month, The Herald can reveal.
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Felex Share Senior Reporter Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday slammed critics of Government’s Command Agriculture Programme, saying Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa had no role in financial decisions made by Treasury.
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WHEN the tobacco marketing season opened in March, farmers were assured that everything was in order. There were even rehearsals around the electronic marketing system to ensure everything went like clockwork.
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Business Reporter FOOD fortification, Grain Marketing Board commercial activities and fertiliser availability are issues high on the agenda of the agro processors meeting to be held tomorrow.
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Samuel Kadungure Manicaland Bureau— THE Command Agriculture experience has proven that Zimbabwean farmers have immense capacity to increase production to meet long-term adequacy of food for both domestic purposes and exports. The observation was made by Wing Commander Emson Kujinga, the Commandant of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
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GMB Silos – pic from The Patriot. Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— A two-tier black market system has emerged outside most Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide where grain rejected for moisture content in excess of the accepted 12,5 percent threshold ends up being sold. This has also resulted in grain produced under Command Agriculture and […]
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