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Tariro Stacey Gatsi COTTON farmers are expecting a fruitful season after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) expeditiously distributed top-dressing fertiliser and herbicides to most growing areas in the wake of the dry spell that rocked the first half of the season delaying the planting of the crop. Initially, GMB had only distributed seed and basal […]

Livingstone Marufu Business Reporter Government has so far paid close to $400 million to farmers after they delivered 1,1 million tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board. This comes after Treasury upped weekly disbursements to GMB to about $40 million to farmers every week to boost farmers’ preparations for the 2017 /2018 summer cropping season.

Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday defended an arrangement by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) in which it buys grain from farmers at $390 per tonne and sells it to millers at $250 saying the decision was meant to ensure that millers saved foreign currency from grain imports.

Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— Government has directed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to immediately activate satellite collection points to mop up the remaining grain as the Strategic Grain Reserve has hit a million tonnes.

Dr Gift Mugano Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector is on the rebound. However, notwithstanding the impressive performance of the sector especially on the crops side, there are a number of factors which need to be attended to if we are to guarantee the sector’s growth. Factors weighing down the agricultural sector include low productivity, environmental challenges and […]

George Maponga Masvingo Bureau Grain deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board have hit 540 000 tonnes, with an additional 100 satellite depots having been opened countrywide to stock grain from the bumper harvest realised in the just-ended farming season.

Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Government has banned all maize imports with immediate effect, with millers intending to buy grain from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) expected to pay directly to Treasury. They will obtain vouchers which they will use to draw down the grain from GMB.

Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter— Deliveries of grains to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots have intensified, as Government calls on the parastatal to accept all crops it is mandated to purchase. The major crops being delivered to the GMB depots are maize, sorghum, finger millet and rapoko. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation

Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter— Farmers have delivered over 230 000 tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), with the bulk coming from Mashonaland West and Central provinces.

Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— Grain Marketing Board (GMB) officials are reportedly facilitating the buying and storage of grain at silos by some middlemen, who now enjoy VIP status. Once it is known that the grain belongs to the middlemen, some of them remaining white farmers, it automatically evades rigorous scrutiny that has

Auditor-General Mrs Mildred Chiri Felex Share Senior Reporter— THE Command Agriculture Programme will be subjected to an audit by the Auditor-General’s Office to ensure transparency and accountability, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has said. This comes amid revelations that by the end of June, $2,4 million of $32 million disbursed

The recapitalisation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) appears to be on course, with the narrowing of interested investors from 20 that had expressed serious intentions to invest in the company in a debt or equity deal, to six that were unveiled by the State Procurement Board on Tuesday.

Nyemudzai Kakore Herald Correspondent Over 100 000 tonnes of maize have so far been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board, with 500 000 tonnes expected to have been delivered by the end of this month, an official has said.

Walter Nyamukondiwa and Sydney Kawadza— Government has mobilised $600 million to fund Command Agriculture and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme in the next summer cropping season, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Addressing farmers and Government officials during a tour of Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots in

Walter Nyamukondiwa in LIONS DEN VICE PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans not be distracted by the vilification of Government’s initiatives to revive the agriculture sector in the private media as the bumper harvest was visible for everyone to see.