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Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter The $300 million livestock, fisheries and wildlife special production programme (Command Livestock), recently approved by Cabinet, is expected to boost land utilisation and influence the crop sector.

Trevor Shiri Correspondent The adulteration of the Command Agriculture Programme, (CAP), as an “ugly culture” by some senior politicians who should know better is quite troubling, if not unsettling.

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 […]

Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter— Communal farmers are leading in maize production for the 2016-17 farming season, as their output increased by 364 percent. According to the final crop and livestock assessment report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, communal farmers increased their yield with an

Livingstone Marufu Business Reporter GOVERNMENT has called on lenders to the agriculture sector to lower their interest rates to single digit figures as a way of making loans affordable to farmers.

Tawanda Mangoma in CHIREDZI Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made yesterday said Government will soon announce the much-awaited cotton prices for this season, which will be above 50 cents per kilogramme.

Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Millers have been barred from buying maize directly from farmers this season and will now procure it from the Grain Marketing Board, while Government has suspended the importation of maize with immediate effect.

Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter— The agricultural sector is expected to grow by 12 percent this year buoyed by a bumper harvest expected this season, with early projections showing the country could produce over 2,8 million tonnes of cereals and other food crops. This was said by the Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Dr Joseph Made […]

Felex Share Senior Reporter— Government used only $190 million under the Command Agriculture Programme, contrary to claims by Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo that $500 million went towards the scheme. Statistics from the Office of the President and Cabinet show that from the $190 million, $30 million went […]

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter— CHINA has handed over 9 500 tonnes of urea fertiliser to Zimbabwe amid indications that the Asian economic giant intends to unveil a $4 billion package for the agricultural sector. Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Huang Ping handed over the fertiliser to Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made […]

Felex Share Senior Reporter— Government has accelerated preparations for the 2016-17 summer cropping season after securing $503 million for inputs, some of which are already on the ground. This comes as President Mugabe yesterday implored the nation to prepare for the season “with serious determination” and recover from losses

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter Government is drafting a statutory instrument making it mandatory for industry to fortify (add nutrients to) food during manufacturing and processing to curb malnutrition, a senior official has said.

Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— Government of Zimbabwe’s Command Agriculture is a unique national food security intervention that puts the country in the lead in implementing Sadc and African Union programmes, South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Mphakama Mbete has said.