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Business Reporter Farmer organisations have implored the Government to extend the early delivery incentive deadline for maize to allow farmers who had a late crop to also benefit. This comes after the Government introduced a fixed early delivery incentive of US$90 dollars, in addition to the set producer price of $75 000, to boost grain […]

Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has so far, installed dryers at seven depots to deal with moisture content of delivered grain. Four more dryers are expected to be installed this month end. Over the years GMB has been battling grain rot caused by high moisture content in delivered grain. GMB […]

Mashonaland East Bureau The District Development Fund (DDF) Mashonaland East Province has embarked on rehabilitation of all roads that link Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots in anticipation of the forthcoming harvesting season. Regardless of a dry spell which prevailed across the Mashonaland East Province lately, most farmers are optimistic of a bumper harvest and will […]

Africa Moyo Business Reporter Government is shelling out US$5 million towards payment for gold delivered by small-scale miners, which is weighing down the availability for physical cash for ordinary citizens, a Cabinet minister has said.

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.

From Walter Nyamukondiwa in KADOMA— Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged the police to arrest corrupt elements like middlemen and officials abusing the Command Agriculture programme. VP Mnangagwa said the police should enforce Statutory Instrument 79, which was gazetted recently and arrest opportunists profiteering from

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

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 Chinhoyi Bureau Grain Marketing Board (GMB) employees could be involved in a scandal in which they reject grain on the grounds of high moisture content to force farmers to sell at low prices to their accomplices, who operate outside the depots.

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 […]

That the Command Agriculture Programme, launched by Government last year, will yield a bumper harvest is no longer a matter for speculation.

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 […]

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 […]