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Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter Sakunda Holdings has pledged to partner Government in sponsoring maize production to reach a target of one million hectares in the next five years. Sakunda is among private companies that played a crucial role in funding Command Agriculture in the 2016-17 season.
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Business Reporter GRAIN processors, who have committed to off take 800 000 tonnes of grain from the Specialised Maize programme, Command Agriculture, are engaged in high level consultations on buying arrangements and on the Command Agriculture winter wheat programme.
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George Maponga Masvingo Bureau— The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has secured $200 million to buy grain from local farmers amid revelations that imports have been banned after permits were last issued in February. The import ban will save the country $500 million. GMB is paying the highest price for maize, sorghum and millet in the […]
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Felex Share and Tendai Mugabe— President Mugabe has called for a paradigm shift in the provision of housing where Government concentrates on building high-rise apartments, instead of expending more land building single-story houses. Speaking at the inaugural, Presidential Youth Interface Meeting at
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The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has been the buyer of choice for Zimbabwean farmers for decades, but developments in recent years have seen growers shunning the parastatal, opting to deal with private buyers.
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Conrad Gweru Correspondent Feeding Zimbabwe and subsequently attaining the breadbasket status will require a holistic approach to the country’s agriculture sector.
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Conrad Mwanawashe Business Reporter FARMERS unions want a significant role in the selection, vetting and monitoring of beneficiaries under the Special Maize Programme, commonly known as Command Agriculture to ensure more transparency and accountability under the initiative.
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Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabweans should not be distracted by posts on social media like Twitter denigrating Command Agriculture, which has been a huge success.
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Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter ZIMBABWE expects to receive 80 centre pivots worth over $6 million from Spain to aid irrigation under Command Agriculture, as Government moves to adopt new technologies and strengthen infrastructural development in support of the successful import-substitution programme.
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Zimbabwe is inching towards the 2018 harmonised elections. President Mugabe last week warned cry babies in the opposition of a “grand defeat”.
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Takunda Maodza recently in Geneva, Switzerland— GOVERNMENT has already secured funds to buy grain from farmers while millers have availed $8 million for the repair of damaged Grain Marketing Board silos. This was revealed by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday last week at a dinner in Geneva held in his honour by Zimbabwe’s ambassador to […]
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Lloyd Gumbo Senior Reporter— MOST provinces countrywide are expecting a bumper harvest largely due to Command Agriculture and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme, with ministers of state for provincial affairs bidding for the programmes to continue. Ministers of State in provinces outside the two metropolitan cities of Harare and Bulawayo said the two programmes had […]
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Lately, Zimbabweans have been treated to a skit deriding Government’s Command Agriculture programme. Some have tried to link these to Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo. If true, that would be very sad. Which is why we believe such amusement to be the product of misinformed minds
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Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter FARMERS were yesterday reminded that Command Agriculture was not a vote-buying gimmick ahead of 2018 harmonised elections and that they will be made to account for everything they receive.
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Herald Reporters Government has warned farmers against abusing inputs under its specialised Command Agriculture scheme, saying it will not hesitate to take drastic action against those caught in graft. Robust mechanisms have since been put in place to bring the culprits to book.
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